LOTTERY


Meaning of LOTTERY in English

n. (pl. -ies) 1 a means of raising money by selling numbered tickets and giving prizes to the holders of numbers drawn at random. 2 an enterprise, process, etc., whose success is governed by chance (life is a lottery).

[ prob. f. Du. loterij (as LOT) ]

Concise Oxford English dictionary.      Краткий оксфордский словарь английского языка.