Definitions for lottery

lottery lot·ter·y

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

Lottery is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 128 anagrams from letters in lottery (elortty).

Definitions for lottery

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 lottery

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

Examples for lottery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for lottery
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10

Words with friends

10

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