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UK
/swˈiːpsteɪks/
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[ US /ˈswipˌsteɪks/ ]
[ US /ˈswipˌsteɪks/ ]
NOUN
- a lottery in which the prize consists of the money paid by the participants
How To Use sweepstakes In A Sentence
- Records show that even on the voyage to this country the new settlers had set up gambling games and sweepstakes to help pass the time.
- The gambling empire rakes in hundreds of millions of dollars each year from sweepstakes, lotteries and of late, poker machines.
- Could it be one of those sweepstakes enticements that would bury me under a dune of unwanted magazines?
- The sweepstakes grand prize is a choice between an archeological dig in the Black Hills of South Dakota with a renowned paleontologist, or a trip to Russia for a Mammoth-themed adventure.
- With Nortel and Alcatel-Lucent (a ALU) having retreated from the WiMAX market, one wonders: Who is going to win the WiMAX equipment sweepstakes? State of WiMAX: Will Huawei Win It All?
- The watch-and-win sweepstakes received more than 92,000 entries, a record for the network.
- Prize draw, sweepstakes and foreign lottery mailings - many typical scams take the form of prize draws, lotteries or government payouts.
- As I sit down to write this column at the end of December 2003, we have received 287 responses - so huge a return that you'd think we were offering some sort of sweepstakes prize.
- The rollout will be supported with radio, print, outdoor and a heavy sampling campaign along with a sweepstakes that dangles prizes ranging from a million dollars to vacation getaways.
- From Feb. 8 to Feb. 27, kids received Power Rangers Lost Galaxy sonic clues and were asked to send in three clues to enter the sweepstakes.