Definition of Gamble

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Gamble

To play or game for money or other stake.

To lose or squander by gaming; -- usually with away.

An act of gambling; a transaction or proceeding involving gambling; hence, anything involving similar risk or uncertainty.

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Gamble Quotations

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.
Muhammad Ali

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
Will Rogers

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise Pascal

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.
William Faulkner

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
H. G. Wells

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
H. G. Wells

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Simone de Beauvoir

Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
Yoko Ono

I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.
Nancy Pelosi

Gamble Translations

gamble in Dutch is dobbelen
gamble in German is spielen, um Geld spielen
gamble in Norwegian is spille, spill
gamble in Swedish is spela

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