state lottery

collocation in English

meaningsofstateandlottery

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state
adjective[before noun]
uk
/steɪt/us
/steɪt/
provided, created, or done by the state (= government of ...
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lottery
noun
uk
/ˈlɒt.ər.i/us
/ˈlɑː.t̬ɚ.i/
a game, often organized by the state or a charity in order to make money, in which tickets with numbers are sold to people who then have a chance of winning a prize if their number ...
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(Definition ofstateandlotteryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofstate lottery

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Each day, we started with the inmate whose serial number corresponded to that day's three-digitstatelotterynumber.
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Would not those collectors pushstatelotterytickets instead of collecting the pools?
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Were a national lottery to be permitted it does not have to be astatelottery—it would cure many of those problems.
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We keep the question of running a nationalstatelotteryunder review but have no current plans to introduce one.
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Thestatelotterywill be the foundation of a lottery state.
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Inevitably, however, a nation-wide lottery becomes associated in the public mind with astatelottery.
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In almost every otherstatelotterythe profile of the playing population largely matches the profile of the population overall.
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They are forbidden by law to advertise, yet thestatelotterywould almost certainly have to advertise.
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It is a nationwide lottery, not astatelottery.
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Astatelotteryis not hard or addictive gambling.
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Why are we being shut out of thestatelottery?
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I always bought a few tickets for thestatelottery.
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Astatelotteryis a lottery run by government.
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The ruling was made because of the allowance of another form of gambling: thestatelottery.
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A statutory measure passed in the same election, and by about the same margin, providing for astatelottery.
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Winning a prize in astatelotteryleft her financially independent after the death of her parents.
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The state had authorized astatelottery, but it did not begin operations until 1991.
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The popularity of playing the numbers waned with the introduction of thestatelottery, which has higher payouts and is legal.
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One notable exception of this was the forbidding of astatelotteryin the state constitution.
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Lottery is outlawed by some governments, while others endorse it to the extent of organizing a national orstatelottery.
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