sweepstakes

Noun

Meaning

A winning of all the stakes or prizes; a sweepstake.

The whole money or other things staked at a horse race, a given sum being put up for each horse, all of which goes to the winner, or is divided among several, as may be previously agreed.

A race for all the sums staked or prizes offered.

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Examples

Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else. Allan Sherman

The decision to drop the atomic bomb - that wasn't Truman, but sweepstakes winner Penny Holkum of Palm Beach. And for that she received a case of Lucky Strikes and a lifetime supply of sadness. John Hodgman

I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes. Isaac Asimov

All the way up through the academic world she had spent a lot of energy fending off the blandly patronizing efforts to enter her in what she termed the Oppression Sweepstakes. Now that she had done something worth noting, blackness attached itself to her like a lamprey. Gregory Benford

Capital One cardholders will have the exclusive opportunity to enter a sweepstakes for the chance to virtually play in the ALTer EGO Capital One Trivia Challenge with Weezer, hosted by Woody from The Woody Show. Source: Internet

And if the feat doesn’t happen by Nov. 23, comedian Trey Kennedy is set to tweet about a second chance sweepstakes on Nov. 24. Source: Internet

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