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Someone who turns uncertainty into a personal financial opinion.
means A person who places a bet, staking money on how they think an uncertain thing will turn out.
from Built straightforwardly from 'wager' plus the agent suffix '-er.' 'Wager' itself traces back through Anglo-French 'wageure' to the verb 'wagier,' meaning to pledge or promise — the same root family that gives us 'wage,' as in a pledged payment for work. So a wagerer and a wage-earner share a buried ancestor: both involve pledging something on an outcome, one on a bet, the other on labor.
- older than bettor
- used in english since the 1500s
- not a gambler
- technically just backs a single specific claim
- etymology
- from wage, meaning a pledge, not a salary