"sweepstake" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈswipˌsteɪk/ [US] Forms: sweepstakes [plural]
Etymology: sweep + stake Etymology templates: {{compound|en|sweep|stake}} sweep + stake Head templates: {{en-noun}} sweepstake (plural sweepstakes)
  1. A lottery in which the prize or prizes constitute all the money paid by the participants. Translations (lottery): лотария (lotarija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), тотализатор (totalizator) [masculine] (Bulgarian), loterie [feminine] (Czech), loterij [feminine] (Dutch), arvonta (Finnish), arpajaiset (Finnish), sorsolásos szerencsejáték (Hungarian), sorsjáték (Hungarian), nyereményjáték (Hungarian), lotteria [feminine] (Italian), gioco a premi [masculine] (Italian), rifa [feminine] (Portuguese), lotaria [feminine] (Portuguese), duais-sgrìob (Scottish Gaelic), lutrija (Serbo-Croatian), nagradna igra (Serbo-Croatian), rifa [feminine] (Spanish), lotería [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-sweepstake-en-noun-oen-gSpJ Disambiguation of 'lottery': 86 14
  2. (US) A prize draw. Tags: US
    Sense id: en-sweepstake-en-noun-qiTk4sIB Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English exocentric verb-noun compounds Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 86 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 14 86 Disambiguation of English exocentric verb-noun compounds: 17 83
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: swoopstake [dialectal] Derived forms: veepstakes

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