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lottery

[ lot-uh-ree ]

noun

plural lotteries.
  1. a gambling game or method of raising money, as for some public charitable purpose, in which a large number of tickets are sold and a drawing is held for certain prizes.
  2. any scheme for the distribution of prizes by chance.
  3. any happening or process that is or appears to be determined by chance:

    to look upon life as a lottery.



lottery

/ 藞濒蓲迟蓹谤瑟 /

noun

  1. a method of raising money by selling numbered tickets and giving a proportion of the money raised to holders of numbers drawn at random
  2. a similar method of raising money in which players select a small group of numbers out of a larger group printed on a ticket. If a player's selection matches some or all of the numbers drawn at random the player wins a proportion of the prize fund
  3. an activity or endeavour the success of which is regarded as a matter of fate or luck
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of lottery1

First recorded in 1560鈥70, lottery is from the Middle Dutch word loterie (whence also French loterie ). See lot, -ery
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of lottery1

C16: from Old French loterie, from Middle Dutch loterije. See lot
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Miliband dismissed the story as "nonsense," saying he would not approve a plan that led to an energy price "postcode lottery".

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I recently attended Downing Street to present a petition to the government to end the postcode lottery for gluten-free prescriptions in my role as an ambassador for the charity Coeliac UK.

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Dr Juan Jose Medina, a criminologist at the University of Seville, says Spain has a "postcode lottery" for women applying for restraining orders 鈥 some jurisdictions are much more likely to grant them than others.

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Ms Dovgal contends half-heartedly that, other than moving elsewhere, "you have to win the lottery, or marry a multi-millionaire. These are kind of the options".

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A customer of Sandy鈥檚 Liquor in the Central Coast city won a $1-million scratcher from the California Lottery this month, state lottery officials said.

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