RAFFLE


Meaning of RAFFLE in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

prize

Contributions are required from everyone towards the raffle prizes .

I have had to stoop to pocketing the money the Supporters' Club give for raffle prizes .

If you can offer a raffle prize or give a donation towards this please let Cicely Harris know as soon as possible.

It was decided that this superb item should be auctioned and the proceeds given towards raffle prizes at the Reunion.

ticket

Many volunteers acted as models or helped behind the scenes with refreshments and raffle tickets .

Both the counterfoil and the voting slip have identical numbers printed on them similar to a cloakroom or raffle tickets .

Anyway, one of them told me to stay and gave me a raffle ticket .

Check up on possible sales of raffle tickets .

If one does not have a raffle ticket one's chances are zero.

Pensioner Walter Niblet pulled the dreaded raffle ticket from the bucket to become manager for season 87/88.

Hundreds of raffle tickets were sold and the winning tickets drawn.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Anyway, one of them told me to stay and gave me a raffle ticket.

Many volunteers acted as models or helped behind the scenes with refreshments and raffle tickets.

That raffle was no more squalid than the raffle we all play every day.

The action continues through Sunday with nightly jam sessions, raffles, and a Grande Finale Concert.

The Ashbourne House appeal raised more than £4,000 for the raffle and Wedgwood winners were.

There followed a programme of displays and a raffle added £104 to Norfolk's funds.

There will also be live tunes, a raffle , plenty of grub, and several homes and studio sites welcoming visitors.

Topping the action will be a raffle and no-host bar.

II. verb

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

They're raffling off a new Cadillac at the carnival.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

About ten thousand dollars' worth of brand-new fifties that the stores handed out in raffles to promote this early sale.

All I could think of was like raffling off a car to raise funds for a church.

In Adult Education you could raffle one or more memberships specifically, or pay from fundraising throughout the year.

In order to raise money, he decided to raffle his motor-cycle combination.

Tattoos will be raffled off by the Tattoo Shops of Tucson at this 18-and-over event.

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