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Wagering vs Bidding - What's the difference?

wagering | bidding |

As verbs the difference between wagering and bidding

is that wagering is while bidding is .

As nouns the difference between wagering and bidding

is that wagering is an amount wagered while bidding is that which one is bidden to do; a command.

wagering

English

Verb

(head)
    • He has been wagering half his wages weekly. (progressive)
    Certain wagering individuals would profit from the outcome. (adjectival)
    Carelessly wagering his allowance led him to ruin. (gerund)
    His repeated wagerings of his allowances led him to ruin. (gerundial noun)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An amount wagered.

    • bidding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which one is bidden to do; a command.
  • * 1868 , Fulwar William Fowle, Sermons preached in the cathedral church of Salisbury (page 172)
    • Do their biddings , and they will lead you to "whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report."
  • The act of placing a bid.
  • * Rowland E. Prothero, English Farming, Past and Present (page 322)
    • Their biddings forced existing owners into ruinous competition; they mortgaged their ancestral acres to buy up outlying properties or round off their boundaries.