lottery
Use Lottery in a sentence
ə noun, plural lot·ter·ies.
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.
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| —n , pl -teries | |
| 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 |
| [C16: from Old French loterie, from Middle Dutch loterije. See | |
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Lottery
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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Word Origin & History
lottery
1560s, "arrangement for a distribution of prizes by chance," from It. lotteria, from same root as O.E. hlot (see lot).
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Example sentences
The author may be thinking that the draft lottery ended deferments.
Many people play the lottery thinking they can beat those kinds of odds.
Some people dream of winning the lottery, others dream of that shiny new car.
If you're a public school either anyone gets in, or kids get in by lottery.
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