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UK
/ɡˈæmbəl/
]
[ US /ˈɡæmbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈɡæmbəɫ/ ]
NOUN
- money that is risked for possible monetary gain
- a risky act or venture
VERB
-
take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
When you buy these stocks you are gambling - play games for money
How To Use gamble In A Sentence
- It was a brave gamble, a bid for power, by an ambitious, clever and canny politician who saw his career facing a premature end.
- It cannot be smoked, drunk or gambled away. Times, Sunday Times
- By contrast, when Procter & Gamble, the makers of Olestra, asked the FDA for permission to add its artificial fat substitute to potato chips, the controversial product was evaluated under food-additive laws.
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- Instead, I'd gambled all my sweetness only to find out I was disposable.
- And pachinko is a national obsession, the parlours offering gaudy arrays of noisy pinball machines where many Japanese contentedly gamble the hours away.
- This friend - who in an ironic twist of fate, appears in the film not as a gambler, but as the casino manager - would sneak down to the casino, after hours, and start playing with feverous intensity.
- Bush the gambler is betting that he will come out looking like President Reagan, whose deficits bought economic reforms and a stronger national defense. The Budget Debate, IX, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- There was an element of ill luck, but every so often, as gamblers would tell us, long odds do come off.
- Those are two big gambles and their outcome may be a big determinant of the result of the next general election. Times, Sunday Times