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sweepstakes
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?swip?ste?ks/
Noun
sweepstakes
- plural of sweepstake
Noun
sweepstakes (plural sweepstakes)
- Synonym of sweepstake
sweepstakes From the web:
- what sweepstakes are real
- what sweepstakes are legit
- what sweepstakes are open
- what sweepstakes meaning
- what sweepstakes prizes
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lottery
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian lotteria, from the same root as Old English hlot (cognate with English lot). Compare French loterie (from Middle Dutch loterie).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?l?t??i/, /?l?t?i/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?l?t?i/
- Hyphenation: lot?te?ry
Noun
lottery (plural lotteries)
- A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance, especially a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, the other tickets are blanks.
- (figuratively) Something decided by chance.
- (obsolete) Allotment; a thing allotted.
Derived terms
- genetic lottery
- lotologist (probably)
- lotterylike
- lottery ticket
- postcode lottery
Translations
lottery From the web:
- what lottery is tonight
- what lottery plays tonight
- what lottery plays today
- what lottery is tonight in texas
- what lottery is today
- what lottery game is tonight
- what lottery drawings are tonight
- what lottery goes off tonight
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