"ladder lottery" meaning in English

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      "form": "ladder lotteries",
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      ]
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      "expansion": "ladder lottery (plural ladder lotteries)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Nagaru Tanigawa, The Boredom of Haruhi Suzumiya",
          "text": "Eight lines were drawn on each sheet of paper. There were two sheets. It looked like ladder lottery to me. Maybe I was hallucinating?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Jianxin Wang, Chee Yap, Frontiers in Algorithmics: 9th International Workshop",
          "text": "A ladder lottery, known as “Amidakuji” in Japan, is one of the most popular lotteries. In this paper, we consider the problems of enumeration, counting, and random generation of the ladder lotteries.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An informal method of decision-making in Asia, based on a series of interlinked descending lines that are followed from the top (where a choice is made) to the bottom (where an outcome is revealed)."
      ],
      "id": "en-ladder_lottery-en-noun-j~53aLoq",
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          "informal",
          "informal"
        ],
        [
          "decision-making",
          "decision-making"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Amidakuji"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "sense": "method of decision-making",
          "word": "畫鬼腳"
        },
        {
          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "roman": "waak⁶ gwai² goek³",
          "sense": "method of decision-making",
          "word": "画鬼脚"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "method of decision-making",
          "word": "鬼腳圖"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "guǐjiǎotú",
          "sense": "method of decision-making",
          "word": "鬼脚图"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "Amida-kuji",
          "sense": "method of decision-making",
          "word": "あみだくじ"
        },
        {
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "sadaritagi",
          "sense": "method of decision-making",
          "word": "사다리타기"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ladder lottery"
}

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  "pos": "noun",
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        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Requests for review of Korean translations",
        "Requests for review of Russian translations"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Nagaru Tanigawa, The Boredom of Haruhi Suzumiya",
          "text": "Eight lines were drawn on each sheet of paper. There were two sheets. It looked like ladder lottery to me. Maybe I was hallucinating?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Jianxin Wang, Chee Yap, Frontiers in Algorithmics: 9th International Workshop",
          "text": "A ladder lottery, known as “Amidakuji” in Japan, is one of the most popular lotteries. In this paper, we consider the problems of enumeration, counting, and random generation of the ladder lotteries.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "An informal method of decision-making in Asia, based on a series of interlinked descending lines that are followed from the top (where a choice is made) to the bottom (where an outcome is revealed)."
      ],
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          "informal",
          "informal"
        ],
        [
          "decision-making",
          "decision-making"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Amidakuji"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "method of decision-making",
      "word": "畫鬼腳"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "waak⁶ gwai² goek³",
      "sense": "method of decision-making",
      "word": "画鬼脚"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "method of decision-making",
      "word": "鬼腳圖"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "guǐjiǎotú",
      "sense": "method of decision-making",
      "word": "鬼脚图"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "Amida-kuji",
      "sense": "method of decision-making",
      "word": "あみだくじ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "sadaritagi",
      "sense": "method of decision-making",
      "word": "사다리타기"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ladder lottery"
}