Definition of Lottery

Lottery

A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance; esp., a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, and the rest of tickets are blanks. Fig. : An affair of chance.

Allotment; thing allotted.

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Lottery Quotations

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
Adam Smith

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
Fran Lebowitz

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
Fran Lebowitz

Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
Bill Watterson

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
Queen Victoria

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.
Peter Lynch

Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?
Jay Leno

Today I bought two lottery tickets, because I had a feeling that it would be now or never - they were both blanks. So I am not going to be rich after all. Nothing at all to be done about it.
Eva Braun

Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.
Ian McKellen

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
Doug Coupland

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
Bianca Jagger

I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.
Brian May

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.
Joseph Lancaster

We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient.
Isaiah Thomas

There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.
James Payn

My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.
Poppy Z. Brite

Knock on wood, but I think we hit the gestational carrier lottery!
Giuliana Rancic

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
Cecil Rhodes

I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
Hailee Steinfeld

We have to be a state where business is welcome and jobs are created. We have to demand value for what is spent and we need to continue to resist a lottery.
Jesse Helms

In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.
Jane D. Hull

Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete.
Linford Christie

Forget the lottery. Bet on yourself instead.
Brian Koslow

Unfortunately, the current format for this lottery program are subject to fraud and abuse and leave our nation exposed to those who may seek to do harm on American soil.
William L. Jenkins

If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.
Justin Long

The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.
Bob Goodlatte

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.
Dick Gephardt

I won the lottery. I don't care what it costs.
Jack Whittaker

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Lottery Translations

lottery in Dutch is loterij, verloting
lottery in French is loterie
lottery in German is Verlosung, Lotterie
lottery in Italian is estrazione, lotteria
lottery in Norwegian is lotteri
lottery in Swedish is lotteri

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