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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gamble
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
compulsive gambling/overeating/spending etc
▪ Compulsive overspending in these days of credit cards has become more common.
drugs/gambling/smuggling etc racket
▪ Police believe he is involved in an international smuggling racket.
illegal parking/gambling/hunting etc
▪ The fines for illegal parking are likely to increase.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
away
▪ The memory of empty bellies because their father had gambled away all the National Assistance was still fresh in their minds.
▪ He gambles away the money but is back on her doorstep the next morning.
▪ But he drank and gambled away the lot, and it closed.
▪ But her father gambled away the tuition for private college, and she was forced to return to the University of Kansas.
▪ All it's done is to give him more money to gamble away up in London.
▪ G: A difference of opinion, Geoffrey, press your buttons and gamble away.
▪ They drank less and saved instead of gambling away their earnings.
on
▪ Quinn had gambled on there being something inside the case to lead police and troops to whatever rendezvous he established with Zack.
▪ Now her family are gambling on yet another operation, this time with her father, David as the donor.
■ NOUN
casino
▪ Well-known casino and gambling interests have contributed regularly to the campaigns of the three senators.
▪ Legislation to legalize casino gambling could be introduced in Congress next fall.
money
▪ He was also, by reputation, an alcoholic who needed the money to pay his gambling debts.
▪ All it's done is to give him more money to gamble away up in London.
online
▪ McAllister said two Las Vegas casinos have recently inquired about obtaining online gambling licenses in Antigua.
▪ They also express concern about the addiction and underage gambling they believe will be the inevitable partners of online gambling.
■ VERB
drink
▪ Time and again you've promised not to drink, not to gamble, and still you waste yourself.
▪ Claudio is the unfaithful, deceitful { friend } who leads Leonardo astray into drinking, gambling and having romantic affairs.
▪ They drank a lot, they gambled, supposedly they practised the Black Mass.
▪ He stopped drinking, smoking, gambling, and womanizing.
▪ But he drank and gambled away the lot, and it closed.
▪ He stopped smoking, drinking, and gambling, and rediscovered the joy of swimming.
legalize
▪ Last fall a congressional tourism commission started debate on legalizing gambling.
▪ Legislation to legalize casino gambling could be introduced in Congress next fall.
▪ The appointments come as interest in legalized gambling appears to be growing in the legislature.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a calculated risk/gamble
▪ Investing in high-tech companies is a calculated risk.
▪ But it is a calculated risk.
▪ He just took a calculated risk on the spur of the moment.
▪ Injured Stephen Pears, who took a calculated gamble with a cheekbone injury, was never tested in goal.
▪ It was a calculated risk to take a man without forensic experience, but we were looking for a manager primarily.
▪ It was a calculated risk, like all voyages into the unknown.
▪ These high-handed tactics were obviously risky, but they were a calculated risk.
movie/media/gambling etc mogul
▪ The movie moguls were taking it up.
▪ Under normal circumstances Chaplin may well have simply thrown the eminent movie mogul a mere passing glance of recognition.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ At the trial, defense attorney Neal gambled by calling no defense witnesses.
▪ We won $700 gambling in Las Vegas.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Being of very modest means, but having some contacts upon the turf, he attempted to increase his wages by gambling.
▪ By appealing directly to his fellow-citizens and banking on a generous response, the President may just have gambled correctly.
▪ By converting pounds to other currencies investors are gambling that the pound will fall.
▪ I let them gamble for the criminals' belongings.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ There was a big gamble on him.
■ VERB
calculate
▪ Your indignation - the less charitable would call it calculated gamble - has paid off.
take
▪ I blamed Hilda for it, I felt she had taken away the gamble, the risk that made it worth while.
▪ One of the few mainstream publishers to take the gamble recently was Rodale Press, with Heart &038; Soul.
▪ Yeltsin, as he is inclined to do when backed into a corner, has taken a high-risk gamble.
▪ Despite the risk, Yamamoto could see no reason for hesitating to take the gamble.
▪ Central government was not prepared to take that gamble, but was happy to see the localities take it.
▪ President Bush took a considerable gamble with this invasion, and it has not yet paid off.
▪ Kirsty's happiness was far too important to take a gamble with.
▪ Store bosses are taking a gamble in hoping that enough folk will go shopping to make up for huge discounts on offer.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a calculated risk/gamble
▪ Investing in high-tech companies is a calculated risk.
▪ But it is a calculated risk.
▪ He just took a calculated risk on the spur of the moment.
▪ Injured Stephen Pears, who took a calculated gamble with a cheekbone injury, was never tested in goal.
▪ It was a calculated risk to take a man without forensic experience, but we were looking for a manager primarily.
▪ It was a calculated risk, like all voyages into the unknown.
▪ These high-handed tactics were obviously risky, but they were a calculated risk.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The city's decision to not ration water during the summer was a gamble that paid off.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And the gamble seems to have paid off.
▪ As it happened, the gamble paid off handsomely.
▪ At the moment, that gamble seems to be paying off.
▪ It is always a little bit of a gamble...
▪ On Tuesday night, the gamble paid off.
▪ Smith's mini gamble paid off for two ends later he stole a single to tie the score at 1-1.
▪ The Union gamble had paid off.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gamble

Gamble \Gamble\, v. t. To lose or squander by gaming; -- usually with away. ``Bankrupts or sots who have gambled or slept away their estates.''
--Ames.

Gamble

Gamble \Gam"ble\, n. An act of gambling; a transaction or proceeding involving gambling; hence, anything involving similar risk or uncertainty. [Colloq.]

Gamble

Gamble \Gam"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gambled; p. pr. & vb. n. Gambling.] [Dim. of game. See 2d Game.] To play or game for money or other stake.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gamble

"risk something of value on a game of chance," 1726 (implied in gambling), from a dialectal survival of Middle English gammlen, variant of gamenen "to play, jest, be merry," from Old English gamenian "to play, joke, pun," from gamen (see game (n.)), with form as in fumble, etc. Or possibly gamble is from a derivative of gamel "to play games" (1590s), itself likely a frequentative from game. Originally regarded as a slang word. The intrusive -b- may be from confusion with unrelated gambol (v.). Transitive meaning "to squander in gambling" is from 1808. Related: Gambled; gambling.

gamble

"risky venture," 1823, from gamble (v.). As "an act of gambling" by 1879.

Wiktionary
gamble

n. 1 A significant risk, undertaken with a potential gain. 2 A risky venture vb. 1 To take a risk, with the potential of a positive outcome. 2 To play risky games, especially casino games, for monetary gain. 3 (context transitive English) To risk (something) for potential gain. 4 To interact with equipment at a casino

WordNet
gamble
  1. n. money that is risked for possible monetary gain

  2. a risky act or venture

gamble
  1. v. take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; "When you buy these stocks you are gambling" [syn: chance, risk, hazard, take chances, adventure, run a risk, take a chance]

  2. play games for money

Wikipedia
Gamble (disambiguation)

To gamble or wager, is to stake something of value on an event with an uncertain outcome.

Gamble, Gambling or Gambler may also refer to:

Gamble (surname)

Gamble is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Cheryl Gamble (born 1970), American singer
  • Chris Gamble (born 1983), American football player
  • Clarence Gamble, heir of the Procter and Gamble soap company fortune
  • Clarence Gamble (tennis player)
  • David Gamble (film editor) (born June 24, 1955), British film editor
  • Donte Gamble (born 1978), American football player
  • Fred Gamble (racing driver) (born 1932), Formula One racer
  • Fred Gamble (actor) (1868–1939), actor
  • James Gamble (industrialist) (1803–1891), co-founder of Procter & Gamble
  • James Sykes Gamble (1847–1925), botanist
  • Jim Gamble, British police officer
  • John A. Gamble (1933–2009), Canadian politician
  • John M. Gamble (1791–1836), Officer in the United States Marine Corps
  • Kenneth Gamble (born 1943), songwriter and producer
  • Nathan Gamble (born 1998), American child actor
  • Oscar Gamble (born 1949), former outfielder in Major League Baseball
  • Peter Gamble (1790–1814), Officer in the United States Navy
  • Ryan Gamble (born 1987), Australian rules footballer
  • William Gamble (general) (1818–1866), Civil engineer and a Union cavalry officer in the American Civil War
  • William Gamble (business) (1805–1881), Canadian businessman

Usage examples of "gamble".

Unfortunately, even though he amassed a fortune far greater than what was needed to restore the family honor, his father continued to gamble it away.

Hunched in the dirt in a corner of the cook dugout, more tortured by the food smells than by the ropes cutting his ankles and wrists, Berel Jastrow takes one look at her face and decides to gamble.

He said he never gambled, but still was satisfied that the meddling with cards in any way was immoral and injurious, and no man could be wholly pure and blemishless without eschewing them.

A hundred years of moonshining, stealing, gunrunning, gambling, counterfeiting, whoring, bribing, even killing, and eventually drug manufacturing, and not a single arrest.

His fattier had squandered the family fortune while gambling and departed the earth a few days after Brock uncovered his debts, while his mother had a softness of the mind and required expensive doctors.

Gold veins were capricious, but none of the Buhl Mining men cared to gamble unnecessarily.

Harper Investigations reported that Alex had been gambling again and was seri-ously in debt to Eddie Casale, a well-known Vegas underworld figure.

He led Chai through the thronging streets, past shops and marketplaces where the lights never went out, past the joy streets where every sin known to forty breeds of man was available and the sunlight never came in, past theaters and gambling halls and certain obscure buildings where no one was admitted except those of one particular race and only the members of those races knew what went on in them.

They were probably also what had convinced Old Conc to gamble his one-way, one-shot flight on this particular extrasolar system.

I was determined not to play any longer as a dupe, but to secure in gambling all the advantages which a prudent young man could obtain without sullying his honour.

He fretted gloomily about all the next day, riding alone in the Park, driving with his sister, drinking and gambling at the club again and smiling cynically to himself at the covert glances his acquaintances exchanged.

Leaving Saddam free to acquire nuclear weapons and then hoping that in spite of his track record he can be deterred would be a terrifically dangerous gamble.

Sevrin was getting deuced little pleasure out of the constant rounds of gambling, drinking, and wenching.

Gendibal gambled on complete certainty, driving in with a didacticism that would not allow the First Speaker to recover.

Money is given to people to get what they want and not as a basis for further acquisition, and we realize that the gambling spirit is a problem for the educationist and mental expert.