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lottery |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lottery \Lot"ter*y\, n.; pl {Lotteries}. [Lot + -ery, as in brewery, bindery.] 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 tickets are blanks. Fig. : An affair of chance. Note: The laws of the United States and of most of the States make lotteries illegal. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: lottery n : players buy chances and prizes are distributed according to the drawing of lots [syn: {drawing}]
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