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- noun Plural form of
wager . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
wager .
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Examples
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Mr. Einhorn has in the past taken on companies ranging from Allied Capital to Yahoo Inc. In May, Mr. Einhorn recommended one of his long-term wagers, Microsoft Corp., to other investors.
Manager Blasts Green Mountain Steve Eder 2011
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Brevan Howard's bets, which are short-term wagers, involve exchanging more than $1 billion and cost several million dollars each, according to one of the traders.
Brevan Howard Bets Against Euro as Greece Comes to Pivot Point Neil Shah 2011
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Brevan Howard's bets, which are short-term wagers, involve exchanging more than $1 billion and cost several million dollars each, according to one of the traders.
Brevan Howard Bets Against Euro as Greece Comes to Pivot Point Neil Shah 2011
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Just Wednesday, at an investment conference, Mr. Einhorn recommended one of his long-term wagers, Microsoft Corp., to other investors.
Einhorn Steps Up To the Plate for Mets Matthew Futterman 2011
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These banks 'biggest profit engines remain their trading arms, which place short-term wagers -- much of it with the firms' own money -- on stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies and other financial products and markets.
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He was so near (as he thought at least) marrying Mrs. Gerard that anybody might have got his whole estate in wagers upon't that would have ventured but a reasonable proportion of their own.
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54) 1888
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This year, so-called macro managers have been forced to make short-term wagers because the longer-term thematic trades haven't worked for them, Mark Enman, head of the global-trading team within hedge-fund research at Man Investments in New York, said in a telephone interview.
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Longer term wagers will continue to be made on the survival of the Euro itself.
Resource Investor - Main Content Feed CustomerService@sbmedia.com (David Coffin 2010
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Longer term wagers will continue to be made on the survival of the Euro itself.
Resource Investor - Main Content Feed CustomerService@sbmedia.com (David Coffin 2010
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For example, the records of an Indiana bookmaker indicate that for a three-day period he received a total of $1,156,000 in wagers.
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