sweepstake

[ sweep-steyk ]
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noun
  1. a sweepstakes.

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How to use sweepstake in a sentence

  • Yet, in the haste of saddling, they found time to arrange a twenty-dollar sweepstake and the allowance for weight.

    Winston of the Prairie | Harold Bindloss
  • Every township in the remote bush has its guinea sweepstake over the Cup, every town hovel its half-crown one.

    Town Life in Australia | R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny
  • In another minute she would be asking him how he had come out on the sweepstake on the ship's run.

    Jill the Reckless | P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
  • Yet in the haste of saddling, they found time to arrange a twenty-dollar sweepstake and the allowance for weight.

    The Impostor | Harold Bindloss
  • The former has, however, now been reduced to 2000 added to a sweepstake of 30 each with a minor forfeit.

British Dictionary definitions for sweepstake

sweepstake

esp US sweepstakes

/ (ˈswiːpˌsteɪk) /


noun
    • a lottery in which the stakes of the participants constitute the prize

    • the prize itself

  1. any event involving a lottery, esp a horse race in which the prize is the competitors' stakes

Origin of sweepstake

1
C15: originally referring to someone who sweeps or takes all the stakes in a game
  • Often shortened to: sweep

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