form of gambling
collocation in Englishmeaningsofformandgambling
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form
noun
uk/fɔːm/us/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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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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(Definition offormandgamblingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Like any otherformofgambling, it is a very inefficient way of raising money.
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It is the question of fairness as between oneformofgamblingand another.
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The simplestformofgamblingis an ordinary lottery.
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At the moment there are something like 1,500 clubs where someformofgamblingtakes place.
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Is it right, he asked, to introduce anotherformofgambling?
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Secondly, do we really want to encourage people to think that we can somehow get over the country's difficulties by someformofgambling?
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It may not be the attitude of a section of the public who do not believe in anyformofgamblingor betting.
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The question we are being invited to consider today, therefore, is primarily whether the controls on advertising a particularformofgamblingshould be relaxed.
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Firstly, because it is for the total abolishment of football pool betting and does not in any way regulate thisformofgambling.
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It should not be aformofgambling.
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Nearly £8,000 million is staked in oneformofgamblingor another, of which £900 million is spent or lost.
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It does not include everyformofgamblingor the lotteries to which he is referring.
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How hard or soft a particularformofgamblingis depends on its intrinsic features and the statutory controls which are applied.
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They are the onlyformofgamblingwhich may be advertised quite freely, including on television and radio.
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Lotteries have always been regarded as the softestformofgambling.
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That can in no way be regarded as a harderformofgamblingthan the national lottery.
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We have gambling because footbal pools are aformofgambling.
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They are aformofgamblingand must be considered in the context of the whole of the gambling law.
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As there is no return on the money that is put into the machines, it is not classed as aformofgambling.
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I entirely agree with him in wishing that money for these purposes did not come from anyformofgambling.
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