The difference between Lay odds and Wager

When used as verbs, lay odds means to offer a bet in which one stands more to lose than the opponent, whereas wager means to bet something.


Wager is also noun with the meaning: something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question.

check bellow for the other definitions of Lay odds and Wager

  1. Lay odds as a verb:

    To offer a bet in which one stands more to lose than the opponent; or a bet in some other way favourable to the opponent.

  2. Lay odds as a verb:

    To feel certain about something.

  1. Wager as a noun:

    Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.

  2. Wager as a noun:

    That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.

  3. Wager as a noun (legal):

    A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event.

  4. Wager as a noun (legal):

    An offer to make oath.

  1. Wager as a verb (transitive):

    To bet something; to put it up as collateral

    Examples:

    "I'd wager my boots on it."

  2. Wager as a verb (intransitive, figuratively):

    To suppose; to dare say.

    Examples:

    "I'll wager that Johnson knows something about all this."

  1. Wager as a noun:

    Agent noun of wage; one who wages.

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