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UK
/bˈʊkmeɪkɐ/
]
[ US /ˈbʊkmeɪkɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈbʊkmeɪkɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races)
- a maker of books; someone who edits or publishes or binds books
How To Use bookmaker In A Sentence
- And it is exactly what the bookmakers are betting on. Times, Sunday Times
- On current form most bookmakers will surely be offering short odds on them managing even the one point this time around.
- As I kept pointing out on CH4 course bookmakers just kept shortening up odds without lengthening others. The Sun
- The case may establish for the first time that bookmakers owe a duty of care to compulsive gamblers. Times, Sunday Times
- The Tasmanian Turf Club banned bookmakers and confined betting on the island to the on-course totalisator in 1897.
- Britons have been swapping bets on royal foibles for decades - many gambled on the name Diana would choose for her eldest son - but recent years have seen an expansion in the scope of the bets offered by mainstream bookmakers. The Seattle Times
- Another baffling call from our friends the bookmakers as they quoted Waterford at a very generous 6 / 4.
- Eight and a half years ago, when the oncological bookmakers gave my father three years to live, we sat together in his hospital room and vowed that, if he survived, the two of us would take a trip each year to celebrate his outliving his expiration date by another twelvemonth. Joshuah Bearman: Travels with Wells Tower, or Another Reason Why Magazines Should Hire More Fiction Writers
- Chances are you can find an Internet bookmaker who will accept your bet on the outcome.
- According to legend, many bookmakers failed to take a single bet on the challenger. Times, Sunday Times