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lottery

/lot-uh-ree/US // ˈlɒt ə ri //UK // (ˈlɒtərɪ) //

彩票,抽奖,开奖,抽奖活动

Related Words

raffle抽奖活动,抽奖,抽獎,彩票gambling赌博,赌博业,对赌,赌钱sweepstake抽奖活动,抽奖,竞赛活动,摇奖chance机会,机遇,机缘,的机会lotto乐透,彩票,大乐透,乐透彩game of chance机会游戏,运气游戏,赌局,赌博游戏door prize门奖,门票,门槛奖,门票奖luck of the draw运气好的时候,运气,运气好,运气好的话numbers game数字游戏,数学游戏,数据游戏,数码游戏

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

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Synonyms
gambling赌博,赌博业,对赌,赌钱raffle抽奖活动,抽奖,抽獎,彩票sweepstake抽奖活动,抽奖,竞赛活动,摇奖chance机会,机遇,机缘,的机会lotto乐透,彩票,大乐透,乐透彩door prize门奖,门票,门槛奖,门票奖game of chance机会游戏,运气游戏,赌局,赌博游戏luck of the draw运气好的时候,运气,运气好,运气好的话numbers game数字游戏,数学游戏,数据游戏,数码游戏

Examples

  • 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.

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