wager
Example Sentences
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If you have money in a broadly based emerging-markets mutual fund or exchange-traded fund, about half your money — yes, really — is being wagered on the stocks of just two countries: China and Taiwan.
From MarketWatch
More than half the value of the total wager was placed the evening before the attack.
If the wager involved Shohei Ohtani, the answer from gamblers was yes more often than it was for any other player in any sport last year, according to data from BetMGM.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s an incredibly risky wager because losses on short bets can be infinitely more damaging than with “long” investing.
From MarketWatch
But investors aren’t just wagering on single stocks or rushing into ETFs.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
