Толковый словарь английского языка - lottery
Lottery
lottery
noun (plural -teries) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle French loterie, from Middle Dutch, from lot lot; akin to Old English hlot lot Date: 1567 1. a drawing of lots in which prizes are distributed to the winners among persons buying a chance, a drawing of lots used to decide something, an event or affair whose outcome is or seems to be determined by chance
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n. (pl. -ies) 1 a means of raising money by selling numbered tickets and giving prizes to the holders of numbers drawn at random. 2 an enterprise, process, etc., whose success is governed by chance (life is a lottery). Etymology: prob. f. Du. loterij (as LOT) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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