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lottery
Noun
  • 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.
  • An affair of chance. figuratively
  • Allotment; a thing allotted. obsolete, Shakespeare