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What is a lottery?

What is a lottery? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance, especially a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, the other tickets are blanks.
  2. (figuratively) An affair of chance.
  3. (obsolete, Shakespeare) Allotment; a thing allotted.
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One example cited is the closure in 1998 of a south Wales oil company when its lottery syndicate hit the jackpot.
Somehow we got talking about the lottery and he told me he had just kicked the habit.
Yet somehow the worthies who distribute our lottery money could not see that.
A massive lottery windfall has secured the future of one of Southampton's best-known and most historically important landmarks.
Graham was kidnapped a month after the lottery win and his kidnapper demanded a ransom.
Rumours are sweeping Cricklade that a lucky resident has scooped the lottery jackpot.

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