Definition of Lottery

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Lottery

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.

Allotment; thing allotted.

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Lottery Quotations

Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?
Jay Leno

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
Adam Smith

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
Fran Lebowitz

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
Fran Lebowitz

Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
Bill Watterson

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
Queen Victoria

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
Doug Coupland

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
Bianca Jagger

I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.
Brian May

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.
Joseph Lancaster

Lottery Translations

lottery in Dutch is loterij, verloting
lottery in French is loterie
lottery in German is Verlosung, Lotterie
lottery in Italian is estrazione, lotteria
lottery in Norwegian is lotteri
lottery in Swedish is lotteri

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