gambling debt

collocation in English

meaningsofgamblinganddebt

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gambling
noun[U]
uk
/ˈɡæm.blɪŋ/us
/ˈɡæm.blɪŋ/
the activity of betting money, for example in a game or on a ...
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debt
noun[C or U]
uk
/det/us
/det/
something, especially money, that is owed to someone else, or the state of ...
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(Definition ofgamblinganddebtfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofgambling debt

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How about the £2 milliongamblingdebt?
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She worked in a liquor restaurant to pay off her father'sgamblingdebt.
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Ghote is forced to borrow to meet hisgamblingdebt.
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Several contemporary "avvisi" referred to a quarrel over agamblingdebtand a tennis game, and this explanation has become established in the popular imagination.
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In tending to his business, he sends men to strong-arm a customer reluctant to pay agamblingdebt.
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If a person was unable to pay off agamblingdebt, yubitsume was sometimes considered as an alternate form of repayment.
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The mistress however accumulates a substantialgamblingdebtand is forced to sell them.
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The work depicts a once well-to-do family's eviction from their ancestral estate, because of the father's gambling debts and, doubtless, general extravagance.
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Hearst bought the newspaper as a sign of loyalty to his friends by accepting it as payment for agamblingdebtowed to him.
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Tommy then agrees to fight one match, in exchange for $1,250 dollars in order to pay up the interest on the father'sgamblingdebt.
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Osby claimed that for the past year the two men had repeatedly harassed and threatened him and his family over the payment of agamblingdebt.
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One has a moral obligation to pay gambling debts.
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Pinson knows that her parents do not approve of him and his heavy gambling debts.
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The room is said to have been for assignations and the settling of gambling debts.
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Ironically, he mistakes the man who hires him as a model for a loan shark that has come to collect on his gambling debts.
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The family left abruptly in 1926, reportedly due to one of the brother's gambling debts.
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One is fighting to pay off gambling debts accumulated by his father.
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They agree that one must seek a wealthy bride in order to repay their gambling debts.
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She had it pulled down around 16823 and sold off the building materials to pay gambling debts.
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An avid sports bettor, he found himself with sizable gambling debts he could not repay.
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