Definitions for lotteries

lotteries lot·ter·y

Spelling: [lot-uh-ree]
IPA: /ˈlɒt ə ri/

Lotteries is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 436 anagrams from letters in lotteries (eeilorstt).

Definitions for lotteries

noun

  1. a gambling game or method of raising money, as for some public charitable purpose, in which a large number of tickets are sold and a drawing is held for certain prizes.
  2. any scheme for the distribution of prizes by chance.
  3. any happening or process that is or appears to be determined by chance:

Origin of lotteries

First recorded in 1560-70, lottery is from the Middle Dutch word loterie (whence also French loterie). See lot, -ery

Examples for lotteries

Selecting legislators by lottery was good enough for the ancient Athenians.

On the flip side, when you draw a Travis Wall contemporary routine, you must be like, “I hit the lottery!”

It is playing the lottery, and while the odds are stacked against it, sometimes people win the lottery.

Every unbroken colt is like a ticket in a lottery; it may be easy, or it may be a tartar.

We put into a lottery for a beefsteak pudding, and it is impossible to say what we may get.

No matter how much money the Koch brothers or Tom Steyer spend, they cannot convince a lottery to choose one person over another.

It was at the time when the Chamber was asked to authorise the issue of lottery stock.

If he could, publishing would be less of a lottery than it is.

Pathways offers employment services no matter the intensiveness of the disability (they have a lottery system).

The lottery was to be publicly drawn the first of February, 1750.

Word Value for lotteries
Scrable

10

Words with friends

10

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