Lottery" : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Lottery	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Lottery
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lottery n something that is regarded as a chance event; "the election was just a lottery to them" players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots Synonym(s): lottery, drawing
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.