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viņam ir lielākas izredzes dabūt šo darbuEnglish-Latvian dictionary > he's odds-on-odds-on favourite for the job
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odds [ɒdz]1. plural noun• I got short/long odds on m'a donné une faible/forte cote• I got £30 over the odds for it (British) on me l'a payé 30 livres de plus que prévuc. ( = difference) it makes no odds cela n'a pas d'importance• his pompous tone was at odds with his vulgar language son ton pompeux ne cadrait pas avec son langage vulgaire2. compounds• we still have a few odds and ends to settle il nous reste encore quelques points à régler ► odds-on favourite noun grand favori m* * *[ɒdz]1) ( in betting) cote f (on sur)the odds on X are short/long — X est bien/mal coté
2) (chance, likelihood) chances fplthe odds are against/in favour of something — quelque chose est improbable/probable
the odds against/in favour of something happening — les chances que quelque chose n'arrive pas/arrive
the odds are in our favour — ( in venture) nous avons toutes les chances de réussir
to shorten/lengthen the odds on something — rendre quelque chose plus/moins probable
••it makes no odds — GB ça n'a pas d'importance
at odds — ( in dispute) être en conflit; ( inconsistent) en contradiction
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tr['ɒdzɒn]1 muy probable, casi seguro,-a'ɑːdz'ɑːn, 'ɒdz'ɒnhe's the odds-on favorite — es el favorito, es el que tiene todas las de ganar
['ɒdz'ɒn]they're odds-on to win this year's elections — es casi seguro que ganarán las elecciones de este año
1.ADJ2.CPDodds-on favourite N — caballo m favorito, caballo m con puntos de ventaja
* * *['ɑːdz'ɑːn, 'ɒdz'ɒn]he's the odds-on favorite — es el favorito, es el que tiene todas las de ganar
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adjectivegut [Chance, Aussicht]; hoch, klar [Favorit]be odds-on [favourite] to win/for something — klarer od. hoher Favorit/Favorit für etwas sein
* * *adj inv sehr wahrscheinlichthe \odds-on favourite der aussichtsreichste Favorit/die aussichtsreichste Favoritin* * *['ɒdzɒn]1. adjor favorite (US) — der klare Favorit
for the job — sie hat die größten Aussichten, die Stelle zu bekommen
he has an odds-on chance ( of winning) — er hat die besten (Gewinn)chancen
2. advit's odds-on that he'll come — es ist so gut wie sicher, dass er kommt
* * *odds-on favo(u)rite hoher oder klarer Favorit;start odds-on als hoher oder klarer Favorit starten;it’s odds-on that … es sieht ganz so aus, als ob …; es ist so gut wie sicher, dass …;it’s odds-on that he won’t come er kommt sehr wahrscheinlich nicht;odds-on certainty sichere Sache;he is an odds-on certainty er hat die größten Chancen, sein Sieg steht so gut wie fest* * *adjectivegut [Chance, Aussicht]; hoch, klar [Favorit]be odds-on [favourite] to win/for something — klarer od. hoher Favorit/Favorit für etwas sein
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