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单词 bookmaker
释义
bookmaker
noun[C]
uk
/ˈbʊkˌmeɪ.kər/us
/ˈbʊkˌmeɪ.kɚ/
(informalbookie)
apersonwhoacceptsandpaysoutamountsofmoneyriskedon aparticularresult,especiallyofhorseraces
（尤指赛马等的）赌注登记人
a/the bookmaker'spluralbookmakers(informala/the bookie'spluralbookies)
aplacewhere bookmakerswork:
赛马会
He went down to the bookmaker's/bookie's in Chesterton Road toplaceabeton therace.他去了在切斯特顿路举行的赛马会，为比赛下了赌注。
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(Definition ofbookmakerfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbookmaker

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The way in which bookmakers pass on the duty to punters is a matter for their commercial judgment.
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Certainly, the board should not be left in the position of being dependent on voluntary payments by bookmakers.
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I believe that £750,000 was paid back to bookmakers last year to service the money that had virtually been paid in advance.
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The exact arrangements for recovery of the duty by bookmakers are for them and their clients.
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In contrast, bookmakers could be expected to want, and deserve, an explicit say in charges levied on them.
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Any reduction of the pool of money from bookmakers will damage racing.
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Indeed, that is evidently the case, because bookmakers only pay this duty in respect of their operations on tracks where there is a totalisator.
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The interests of racing and bookmakers are not always mutual and occasionally conflict.
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In betting activities for which there is not such a competitive market, bookmakers arrive at their own prices.
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The process of imposing the charge on the on-course bookmakers is wrong.
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Unless that example is followed here, the situation is likely to lead to bookmakers going abroad and looking into new opportunities there.
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The bookmakers have put forward arguments for a reduction in the cash rate.
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There are matters which most intimately concern the horseracing industry and bookmakers and should, given goodwill, be capable of resolution between them.
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Also, as bookmakers have asserted, some bets were taken by people acting illegally, and no duty was paid on these.
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Clause 16 makes the taking of bets on the outcome of the national lottery a ground for the revocation or non-renewal of a bookmaker's permit.
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