Non-participation in the political world; as a country avoiding international affairs.
The act of declining to vote on a particular issue.
The act of abstaining or refraining (from).
To suppose; to dare say.
To bet something; to put it up as collateral.
Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.
An offer to make oath.
A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event.
That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.