A raffle is a competition in which you buy tickets with numbers on them. Afterwards some numbers are chosen, and if your ticket has one of these numbers on it, you win a prize. Any more raffle tickets? Twenty-five pence each or five for a pound. = lottery
A kind of lottery, in which several persons pay, in shares, the value of something put up as a stake, and then determine by chance (as by casting dice) which one of them shall become the sole possessor
If someone raffles something, they give it as a prize in a raffle. During each show we will be raffling a fabulous prize. a competition or game in which people buy numbered tickets and can win prizes (rafle ). raffle off to offer something as a prize in a raffle