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gamble English

Meaning gamble meaning

What does gamble mean?
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gamble Verb

— If you gamble, you take a risk. I saw him gamble at the lottery last night.

gamble

— verb (= risk) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome When you buy these stocks you are gambling — verb play games for money — noun a risky act or venture — noun money that is risked for possible monetary gain

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gamble English » English

bet wager risk stake play gambling play games chance adventure venture take a chance game of chance game take chances sport run a risk hazard gaming fight for crapshoot win by gambling wealth try out toy with stakes spiel speculate shot run the risk recreation raffle punt preform play cards perform nazard lay input guess game of luck game of hazard game away gambling game estimate draw for contribution chess charge buck brinkmanship

Topics gamble topics

What do people use gamble to talk about?
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation

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Conjugation gamble conjugation

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gamble · verb

Examples gamble examples

How do I use gamble in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I don't gamble.
Don't gamble with other people's money.
He loves to gamble but generally loses.
I don't gamble anymore.
Tom doesn't gamble, drink or smoke.
Tom doesn't gamble.
Tom loves to gamble.
Tom loved to gamble.
You're taking a big gamble.
Do you like to gamble?
It's a huge gamble.
Tom liked to gamble.

Movie subtitles

Truthfully, I was desperate, so I just took a gamble, but do you also die?
Since when do you drink or gamble?
Perfect. - Okay, well, perfect then! Let's go gamble!
Remember one thing, you wanted to gamble, so you came in here.
The guy wanted to gamble and I won, that's all.
It's only a gamble.
And even if your daddy was half what you say. it wouldn't be right nor just to gamble two weeks good fishing. against a yarn give out by an upset boy.
Didn't think it was fair to gamble with the future.
Oh, how can I learn to be a cowboy. - if you won't let me go out and gamble?
My money has helped you drink and gamble and enjoy the world as you wished.
Hildy, I don't gamble.
Let that be a lesson - never gamble with strangers.
Sometimes we have to gamble.
Worth the gamble to keep his confidence.
Let's go gamble!
Do you like to gamble?
Then what did you want to gamble for?
You wouldn't need to gamble. if you cleared the field.
Sure, I love to gamble if I'm sure I'm going to win.
Eric just loves to gamble.
Boy, you like to gamble.
But you said you weren't going to gamble anymore.
You told me he wouldn't gamble anymore. - because he'd have to go back and marry.
Love and business, it's just the same, you have to gamble.
You forget I am a soldier and gamble swiftly with life and death.
Oh, you gamble with them?
Do you gamble much?
Why, one comes here to gamble, and one gambles to win.
You gamble too, you must understand my problem.
I don't gamble.
How many times have you promised me not to go upstairs and gamble my money?
Querida mía, how can I gamble when I have no money?
I have just won a fortune, and I am never going to gamble again.
Rosita, you are telling me to gamble?
You like to gamble.
Anyhow, it's a fair gamble, especially if the house will take off the limit.

News and current affairs

Irrevocably fixing the exchange rate was at best a gamble, at worst a blunder.
At the start, Argentina's gamble seemed to pay off.
Investors did not understand that Argentina was at risk of longer-term stagnation as a result of its currency board gamble.
I argued with them, saying that Argentina was in more trouble than appeared, and that Argentina should not encourage others to take the same gamble.
The IMF also championed Argentina's gamble, urging Bulgaria, for example, to follow the same approach.
Predictably, Argentina's gamble turned sour.
The euro was always a big gamble, a grand experiment.
Homeowners around the world effectively gamble on home prices.
George W. Bush's economic policies have been based on an extraordinarily reckless gamble that reflects a political coalition of two major forces: the super-rich and evangelical Christians.
The problem is that Bush's reckless gamble has now built up considerable political momentum.
Bush's gamble was a loser from the start, generating costly results - mainly for the US, but for the rest of the world, too - for years to come.
But it is a foolhardy gamble.
In fact, piling loans atop already-high debt burdens in the eurozone's periphery entailed a significant gamble, particularly as the crisis erupted.
With Russia testing Europe's resolve to the east, the timing of Europe's gamble could not be worse.
Indeed, one characteristic sign of economic vitality is the frequency of bankruptcy, for business failures indicate a willingness to gamble and take risks on innovation.
BRUSSELS - Prime Minister David Cameron's offer to British citizens to hold a referendum on whether to leave the European Union might have seemed like a reasonably safe gamble just a few years ago.
It is now time for Europe to gamble on China.
To be sure, Cameron's speech was a more statesmanlike gamble than many - even within his own government - had anticipated.
Suppose you had placed a long-term bet on financial equities in 1900, along with a short bet on general equities - in effect a gamble on whether the UK financial sector would outperform the market.

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