📖 Определения и значения для слова lottery
📒 a way of raising money for a government, charity, etc. by selling tickets that have different numbers on them that people have chosen. Numbers are then chosen by chance and the people who have those numbers on their tickets win prizes.
- the national/state lottery
- a lottery ticket
- A couple scooped £10 million on the national lottery.
📒 a situation whose success or result is based on luck rather than on effort or careful organization
- Some people think that marriage is a lottery.
- Politicians have acknowledged that it is a bit of a lottery who gets funding.