raffle

/'ræfl/

Thân thiện

A woman draws a winning ticket from a raffle drum at a community fair.

Definition

1. Noun:

   • A type of lottery: A raffle is a gambling competition in which people buy numbered tickets. One or more tickets are then drawn at random, and the holders of those tickets win prizes. The prizes are typically physical goods or experiences, not money.
   • The event or process itself: The term can also refer to the event where the drawing takes place.

2. Verb:

   • To dispose of by means of a raffle: To offer something as a prize in a raffle. The verb is most commonly used in the phrasal form "raffle off."

Usage and Examples

• Noun:

  • The school is holding a raffle to raise funds for the library. First prize is a new bicycle.
  • I bought five tickets for the charity raffle.

• Verb:

  • The club will raffle off a weekend getaway to raise money.
  • They raffled a signed guitar at the concert.

Advanced Usage

• "to be raffled": Describes an item that is offered as a prize in a raffle.
  • Several fantastic items were raffled at the annual dinner.

Variants and Related Words

• Raffle ticket (n): The ticket purchased to enter a raffle.
  • Don't forget to buy your raffle tickets!

Synonyms

• Lottery: A general term for a game of chance involving tickets. (Note: A lottery often has cash prizes, while a raffle typically has goods.)
• Draw: Can refer to the act of selecting the winning ticket(s).

Phrasal Verbs

• Raffle off: The standard phrasal verb meaning to sell chances to win something in a raffle.
  • The local business donated a TV to be raffled off.

Related Idioms

• No direct idioms are specifically built around the word "raffle." It is typically used in its literal sense.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a lottery in which the prizes are goods rather than money

Verb

1. dispose of in a lottery
   • We raffled off a trip to the Bahamas

Từ đồng nghĩa

• raffle off