Definitionn. something that is regarded as a chance event
Last update: September 4, 2015
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Government resorts to lottery to raise money for development purposes. [noun]
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Who will get what may be decided by lottery. [noun]
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Caber Music is supported by the National Lottery, The Scottish arts Council, ... [noun]
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Stop Press... There will be a special Lottery draw to commemorate the 25th anniversary, with a top prize of £ 2500. [noun]
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"With five thousand francs you had better play at the lottery." [noun]
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For she had lost her only son, the entire hope of her old days, as well as her only daughter's lover, in that lottery of murder. [noun]
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Selling bazaar tickets or what do you call it royal Hungarian privileged lottery. [noun]
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I never bought a ticket in a lottery or a raffle. [noun]
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He put into my hands sixty pounds to be laid out in lottery tickets for the battery, with directions to apply what prizes might be drawn wholly to that service. [noun]
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It had been propos'd that we should encourage the scheme for building a battery by laying out the present stock, then about sixty pounds, in tickets of the lottery. [noun]
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I then propos'd a lottery to defray the expense of building a battery below the town, and furnishing it with cannon. [noun]
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