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Factions claiming local gains
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winnings
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. something won (especially money) [syn: win , profits ] [ant: losings ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Scooping up his winnings , he went off to invest them at the blackjack table. ▪ She collected her winnings and put them into her bag. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And they decided for reasons best known to themselves to invest ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (plural of winning English)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"things gained or won," late 14c., plural verbal noun from win (v.).
Usage examples of winnings.
Both Phaid's winnings and the proceeds from Streetlife's rip-offs had been spent on bribing his way out of a succession of firing squads.
She's been down at Mox's watching the gamblers who bet on the favourite pick up their winnings, and she's not very pleased about it.
Leaving Makri to gloat over her winnings, I depart in the direction of the nearest food vendor.
She doesn't have much money and she handed over all her winnings to the A.
And now I'm about to walk off with the largest pot of winnings ever seen in Twelve Seas.
It's true that my winnings at the chariot races will enable me to make it through the winter in more comfort than I otherwise might have.
If she can win one fight I might be up for some good winnings, which of course I'll share with you.
But as he sat, gigantic and impassive, at the odd round desk in his office, watching the flowing tape that recorded the winnings hi all the halls, sipping the dark Martian beer that never intoxicated him, no onlooker could have guessed his age within a score of years—or guessed anything at all that moved behind his face.
The fat yellow hands of Giles Habibula, handling the green certificates as if they had been incandescent metal, laid the stack of his winnings on the double-zero.
He had to play this game to the end and then walk away with his winnings as best he could.
He wondered how he was going to make his way up those stairs with his winnings in his hand.
Phaid put on his jacket, dropped his winnings and the rube's fuse tube into his bag and listened to the beat of the falling rain.
It had required all the charm Phaid could muster, the right answers to some searching questions and a large portion of his winnings before she finally agreed to carry him to the next major port.
All those times that he'd sat in a fancy restaurant, spending his winnings, chewing his way through a prime steak with all the trimmings, he'd never given a thought as to what was involved in bringing the meat to the table.
The wallet full of winnings was his passage as far away from it as possible.