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 (economics), value ("the stakes") on a Event (probability theory), random event with the intent of winning something else of value, where instances of strategy (ga ...

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 procedure was in force during the early Republic, both parties had to lay down a legal wager at the preliminary hearing, probably to discourage frivolous litigation. In some cases, if the party lost, the ...

, 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 experiment or observation, following the scientific method. It typically comprises a commitment to pay out when a currently-unknown or uncertain statement is resolved, and either proven or ...

, a wager whose outcome is settled by scientific method

People with the name

Wager Swayne Wager Swayne (November 10, 1834December 18, 1902) was a Union Army colonel during the American Civil War and was appointed as the last major general of volunteers of the Union Army. Swayne received America's highest military decoration the Med ...

(1834–1902), American military Governor *Sir

Charles Wager Admiral Sir Charles Wager (24 February 1666 – 24 May 1743) was an English 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 ...

(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 184 ...

(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 Sub ...

(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, 1925 c. January 2012) was an American film and television actor. Wager was born in New York, New York, and nicknamed "Mendy". He was the son of Meyer Weisgal, a journalist, publisher, playwright, f ...

(1925–2011), American actor * Tor Wager, 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 ...

(1924–2004), American novelist

Ships of the Royal Navy

*, a square-rigged sixth-rate Royal Navy ship wrecked in 1741 *

Wager Mutiny The ''Wager'' Mutiny is a historical event that took place in 1741, after the British warship was shipwreck, wrecked on a desolate island off the south coast of present-day Chile. ''Wager'' was part of a naval squadron bound to attack Spanis ...

, mutiny that occurred after loss of HMS ''Wager'' in 1741 *, a W-class destroyer launched in 1943

Films

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

Literature

* '' The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder'', a 2023 nonfiction book by David Grann

Gambling

People with the name

Ships of the Royal Navy

Films

Literature

See also