numbers game

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Определение numbers game в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь

An illegal lottery in which the bettor attempts to pick a number of digits that will match those randomly drawn the following day

1. disapproval If you say that someone is playing the numbers game, you think that they are concentrating on the aspects of something which can be expressed in statistics, usually in order to mislead people. Regrettably, he resorts to the familiar numbers game when he boasts that fewer than 300 state enterprises currently remain in the public sector. see also number. A lottery in which bets are made on an unpredictable number, such as a daily stock quotation

Связанные Термины

numbers games

plural form of numbers game

Расстановка переносов

Num·bers game

Турецкое произношение

nʌmbırz geym

Произношение

/ˈnəmbərz ˈgām/ /ˈnʌmbɜrz ˈɡeɪm/