wager

• 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 hearing, under the early Roman Republic's Legis Actiones procedure
• Scientific wager, a wager whose outcome is settled by scientific method

• Wager Swayne (1834–1902), American military Governor
• Sir Charles Wager (1666–1743), British Admiral
• David Wager (1804–1870), New York politician
• Gregg Wager (born 1958), American composer
• Harold Wager (1862–1929), British botanist
• Lawrence Wager (1904–1965), British geologist, explorer and mountaineer
• Michael Wager (1925–2011), American actor
• Tor Wager, American neuroscientist
• Walter Wager (1924–2004), American novelist

• {{HMS|Wager|1739}}, a square-rigged sixth-rate Royal Navy ship wrecked in 1741
• Wager Mutiny, mutiny that occurred after loss of HMS Wager in 1741
• {{HMS|Wager|R98}}, a W-class destroyer launched in 1943

• The Wager (1998 film), a short film
• The Wager (2007 film), a feature film

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

• WAGR syndrome, a rare genetic syndrome

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