Wager can refer to:

Gambling

* Wager, the amount of a valuable staked when

gambling Gambling (also known as betting or gaming) is the wagering of something of value ("the stakes") on a random event with the intent of winning something else of value, where instances of strategy are discounted. Gambling thus requires three el ...

on an event with an uncertain outcome, with the primary intent of winning money or material goods *

Legal wager In the Roman litigation system, while the ''Legis Actiones'' procedure was in force during the early Republic, both parties had to lay down a wager at the preliminary hearing, probably to discourage frivolous litigation. In some cases, if the part ...

, required by both parties at the preliminary hearing, under the early Roman Republic's ''Legis Actiones'' procedure *

Scientific wager A scientific wager is a wager whose outcome is settled by scientific method. They typically consist of an offer to pay a certain sum of money on the scientific proof or disproof of some currently-uncertain statement. Some wagers have specific date r ...

, a wager whose outcome is settled by scientific method

People with the name

Wager Swayne Wager can refer to: Gambling * Wager, the amount of a valuable staked when gambling on an event with an uncertain outcome, with the primary intent of winning money or material goods * Legal wager, required by both parties at the preliminary hearin ...

(1834–1902), American military Governor *Sir

Charles Wager Admiral Sir Charles Wager (24 February 1666 – 24 May 1743) was a Royal Navy officer and politician who served as First Lord of the Admiralty from 1733 to 1742. Despite heroic active service and steadfast administration and diplomatic service, ...

(1666–1743), British Admiral *

David Wager David Wager (March 17, 1804 – July 27, 1870) was an American politician from New York. Life He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Oneida Co.) in 1833 and 1835. He was a member of the New York State Senate (5th D.) from 1836 to 1840 ...

(1804–1870), New York politician *

Gregg Wager Gregg Wager (born September 16, 1958 in Adrian, Michigan) is an American composer, pianist, and music critic. He studied composition at the University of Southern California and the California Institute of the Arts. His teachers included Morton Subo ...

(born 1958), American composer *

Harold Wager Harold William Taylor Wager FRS (11 March 1862 – 17 November 1929) was a British botanist and mycologist. He was the uncle of the geologist Lawrence Rickard Wager. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1904. He was President of th ...

(1862–1929), British botanist *

Lawrence Wager Lawrence Rickard Wager, commonly known as Bill Wager, (5 February 1904 – 20 November 1965) was a British geologist, explorer and mountaineer, described as "one of the finest geological thinkers of his generation"Vincent and best remembered for ...

(1904–1965), British geologist, explorer and mountaineer *

Michael Wager Michael Wager (born Emanuel Weisgal, April 29, 1925December 26, 2011) was an American film and television actor. Wager was born in New York, New York, and nicknamed "Mendy". He was the son of Meyer W. and Shirley (Hirshfeld) Weisgal. He appea ...

(born 1925), American actor *

Tor Wager Tor D. Wager is the Diana L. Taylor Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience at Dartmouth College, as well as the director of the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory at this university. He is known for his research into the placebo effec ...

, American neuroscientist *

Walter Wager Walter Herman Wager (September 4, 1924 – July 11, 2004) was an American crime and espionage-thriller novelist and former editor-in-chief of ''Playbill'' magazine. The movie '' Telefon'', starring Charles Bronson, was inspired by his novel of t ...

(1924–2004), American novelist

Films

* ''The Wager'' (1998 film), a short film * ''The Wager'' (2007 film), a feature film

Gambling

People with the name

Films

See also