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gam·bling

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. gambling, gaming, playnoun

    the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize)

    "his gambling cost him a fortune"; "there was heavy play at the blackjack table"

Wiktionary

  1. gamblingnoun

    An activity characterised by a balance between winning and losing that is governed by a mixture of skill and chance.

ChatGPT

  1. gambling

    Gambling is the act of betting or wagering on an event with an uncertain outcome, with the primary intent of winning additional money or material goods. It typically involves an element of risk, as the outcome is often determined by chance. This can include activities like lotteries, casino games, sports betting, or online games.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Gambling

    of Gamble

Wikidata

  1. Gambling

    Gambling is the wagering of money or something of material value on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money and/or material goods. Gambling thus requires three elements be present: consideration, chance and prize. Typically, the outcome of the wager is evident within a short period. The term gaming in this context typically refers to instances in which the activity has been specifically permitted by law. The two words are not mutually exclusive; i.e., a “gaming” company offers “gambling” activities to the public and may be regulated by one of many gaming control boards, for example, the Nevada Gaming Control Board. However, this distinction is not universally observed in the English-speaking world. For instance, in the UK, the regulator of gambling activities is called the Gambling Commission. Also, the word gaming is frequently used to describe activities that do not involve wagering, especially online. Gambling is also a major international commercial activity, with the legal gambling market totaling an estimated $335 billion in 2009. In other forms, gambling can be conducted with materials which have a value, but are not real money. For example, players of marbles games might wager marbles, and likewise games of Pogs or Magic: The Gathering can be played with the collectible game pieces as stakes, resulting in a meta-game regarding the value of a player's collection of pieces.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Gambling

    An activity distinguished primarily by an element of risk in trying to obtain a desired goal, e.g., playing a game of chance for money.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. GAMBLING

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Gambling is ranked #133048 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Gambling surname appeared 127 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Gambling.

    88.9% or 113 total occurrences were White.
    4.7% or 6 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    3.9% or 5 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of gambling in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of gambling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of gambling in a Sentence

  1. Elizabeth Warren:

    Renominating you means gambling the next five years a Republican majority of the Federal Reserve with a Republican chair who has regularly voted to deregulate Wall Street won't drive this economy over a financial cliff again, with so many qualified candidates for this job, I just don't think that's a risk worth taking.

  2. Rose Marie:

    They were all going, ‘ You’re our Baby ! ’ and then Uncle Al Capone picked me up in Uncle Al Capone arms and said, ‘ We love you Baby. From now on, you call me uncle Al. ’ I said, ‘ Sure, why not ? Ok, uncle Al. ’ … At that time every hotel or popular place, gambling place, was owned by one of the boys, or ran by one of the boys. And I knew them all from going from one place to another doing my act.

  3. Clifford Villanueva Villalon:

    Losing in any game is not gambling, but losing yourself is.

  4. Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson:

    Illegal gambling is not a victimless crime, it preys on peoples’ vulnerabilities and directly leads to money laundering, loansharking and a host of other crimes.

  5. Roger Healy:

    If you are not diversifying you are not investing — you're gambling, you can't overdo this.

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