Wager

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

People with the name

 * 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

Ships of the Royal Navy

 * 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

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