1) Accident 2) Affair of chance 3) Chance 4) Chance event 5) Convenience-store ticket 6) Draw 7) Fortuity 8) Fundraising game 9) Game of chance 10) It may make you a millionaire 11) Maker of instant millionaires 12) Mass gambling 13) Millionaire creator 14) Millionaire producer 15) Nightly news topic
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1) Chance 2) Consultation 3) Raffle 4) Sweepstake 5) Sweepstakes 6) Tombola
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- something that is regarded as a chance event
- players buy chances and prizes are distributed according to the drawing of lots
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A lottery is a form of gambling which involves the drawing of lots for a prize. Lotteries are outlawed by some governments, while others endorse it to the extent of organizing a national or state lottery. It is common to find some degree of regulation of lottery by governments. Though lotteries were common in the United States and some other count...
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[horse] Lottery was such a good horse that one Victorian commentator claimed he could trot faster than most of his rivals could gallop and it was widely believed that he would have won the National more than once had it not been for an impossible weight burden imposed in 1841 that left him little chance of victory. However that excuse could...
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[probability] In expected utility theory, a lottery is a discrete distribution of probability on a set of states of nature. The elements of a lottery correspond to the probability that a certain outcome arises from a given state of nature. In economics, individuals are assumed to rank lotteries according to a rational system of preferences,...
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• (n.) Allotment; thing allotted. • (n.) A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance; esp., a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, and the rest of tickets are blanks. Fig. : An affair of chance.
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procedure for distributing something (usually money or prizes) among a group of people by lot or by chance. The type of lottery considered here is a ... [4 related articles]
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Game of chance in which tickets sold may win a prize. State-sponsored lotteries are an effective means of raising revenue, often used for charitable and other public needs. Types of lottery In the...
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A scheme in which making a required purchase gives a person a chance to win a prize which is awarded at random, usually through an electronic drawing. Lotteries may not be used as promotion devices under U.S. laws.
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Lottery Tuition Assistance (LTA) is available for eligible full-time students (12 or more credit hou
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Lot'ter·y noun ;
plural Lotteries . [
Lot +
-ery , as in brewe
ry , bind
ery .]
1. A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance; esp., a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, and the rest of the ...
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A lottery is a scheme for the distribution of prizes by chance, the plan being generally to have a certain number of prizes and a much greater number of tickets, the prizes being allotted according as the drawing of numbered tickets from a suitable receptacle shall decide. Lotteries on the large scale originated in Italy, from which they passed int...
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n] - something that is regarded as a chance event 2. [n] - players buy chances and prizes are distributed according to the drawing of lots
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noun players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots
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Game of chance in which tickets sold may win a prize. State-sponsored lotteries are an effective means of raising revenue, often used for charitable and other public needs
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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. · any scheme for the distribution of prizes by chance. · any happening or process that is or appears to be determined by chance: to look upon life as a lottery.
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