lottery 的定义
plural lot·ter·ies.
- 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.
lottery 近义词
drawing
更多lottery例句
- Deputy health commissioner Anderson disagrees about whether lotteries are useful, saying the city is pushing to improve equity through community partnerships and outreach instead.
- Buyers will be selected by lottery, as usual, with designations for every team.
- In most states, lotteries accounted for about 2 percent of total revenue, a significant sum, to be sure, but hardly enough to offset a tax reduction and meaningfully bolster government expenditures.
- Worst of all, Dallas owes New York its 2021 first-rounder, which could land in the lottery barring a reversal of fortune this season.
- Other proposals included implementing a lottery rather than the first-come, first-served registration scramble for appointments.
- You might be a lesbian, in which case you have won the sexual lottery.
- The winning lottery numbers and foretold riches never arrived.
- Selecting legislators by lottery was good enough for the ancient Athenians.
- No matter how much money the Koch brothers or Tom Steyer spend, they cannot convince a lottery to choose one person over another.
- Pathways offers employment services no matter the intensiveness of the disability (they have a lottery system).
- Malicious persons in the town even declared that the lamented Torvestad had got his wife in a lottery at Christiansfeldt.
- A lottery drawn in London for the benefit of the Virginia plantations, the profits of which amounted to nearly 30,000.
- She ran the household, but had likewise a decided mania for lottery, and always for the same numbers; she "nursed a trey."
- The lottery had taken a strong hold upon the innate love of chance.
- The new county was required to build a court house at its own expense, which was partly done by lottery.