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• Lottery — ticket redirects here. For the film, see Lottery Ticket (film). For other uses, see Lottery (disambiguation). A lottery is a form of gambling which involves the drawing of lots for a prize. Lottery is outlawed by some governments, while others… …   Wikipedia

• Lottery jackpot records — are a matter of some interest to both participants and observers of this form of gambling.It is often said that the annual Christmas lottery in Spain, the Sorteo Extraordinario de Navidad, is the largest in the world. In 2003 its prize fund… …   Wikipedia

• Lottery! — was an ABC television series that premiered on September 9, 1983, and aired for one season of 17 episodes. The episodes centered around ordinary people who have won the lottery all of a sudden becoming millionaires and how it changes their lives …   Wikipedia

• Lottery (disambiguation) — Lottery can refer to: * Lottery a game of chance often used in gambling * NBA Lottery a lottery used to determine draft order in the National Basketball Association * Postcode lottery a phrase used in the United Kingdom to describe the… …   Wikipedia

• lottery — lot‧te‧ry [ˈlɒtəri ǁ ˈlɑː ] noun lotteries PLURALFORM 1. [countable] a game of chance in which people buy tickets with numbers on and some people win prizes. Lotteries are often used to raise money for the government or for a charity: • The… …   Financial and business terms

• Lottery Bond — Lottery Bonds are a type of government bond in which some randomly selected bonds within the issue are redeemed at a higher value than the face value of the bond.They are government bonds and only issued by a government. They have been issued by… …   Wikipedia

• Lottery — • A lottery is one of the aleatory contracts and is commonly defined as a distribution of prizes by lot or by chance Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Lottery     Lottery      …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Lottery scheduling — is a probabilistic scheduling algorithm for processes in an operating system. Processes are each assigned some number of lottery tickets, and the scheduler draws a random ticket to select the next process. The distribution of tickets need not be… …   Wikipedia

• lottery — noun allotment by chance, bet, chance, draw, drawing, gamble, game of chance, lot, raffle, sors, sortitio, sweepstake, wager Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 lottery …   Law dictionary

• Lottery (racehorse) — Lottery was the winner of the 1839 Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree, near Liverpool, England. Often stated as the first running of this famous race as it was the first to truly attract National interest in the United Kingdom. It was… …   Wikipedia

• lottery — [lät′ər ē] n. pl. lotteries [MFr loterie < MDu loterije < lot, LOT] 1. a game of chance in which people buy numbered tickets, and prizes are given to those whose numbers are drawn by lot: sometimes sponsored by a state or organization as a… …   English World dictionary