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gambling
[ gam-bling ]
noun
- the activity or practice of playing at a game of chance for money or other stakes.
- the act or practice of risking the loss of something important by taking a chance or acting recklessly:
If you don't back up your data, that's gambling.
Example Sentences
Sir Alister was the most senior politician caught up in the row over government insiders gambling on the general election date.
But also, investors in such shares are, as Ms Streeter puts it, gambling on "not jam today but jam tomorrow".
A week later dozens of players, coaches and administrators were arrested for gambling, match-fixing and bribery as part of a two-year probe into corruption in the domestic game.
This follows a government review of the 2005 Gambling Act, and the publication of a white paper which introduces new measures to strengthen gambling harm legislation.
She even mentioned recent gambling behaviour when the second drug was prescribed, she says.
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