Usually means: Game of chance, monetary prizes.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. lottery: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. lottery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lottery: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lottery: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lottery: Vocabulary.com
  6. lottery: Wordnik
  7. lottery: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. lottery: Wiktionary
  9. lottery: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lottery: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lottery: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Lottery, lottery: Dictionary.com
  13. lottery: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. lottery: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Lottery (K Camp song), Lottery (disambiguation), Lottery (film), Lottery (horse), Lottery (novel), Lottery (probability), Lottery (short story), Lottery (song), Lottery, Lottery, The Lottery (TV series), The Lottery (short story), The Lottery: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Lottery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lottery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lottery: Rhymezone
  19. lottery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. lottery: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. lottery: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. lottery: Free Dictionary
  23. lottery: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. lottery: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Lottery: Investopedia
  3. lottery: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  5. Lottery (prizewinning): Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lottery (prizewinning), lottery: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lottery (prizewinning): Medical dictionary
  2. lottery: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lottery: Catholic Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The lottery: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See lotteries as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance, especially a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, the other tickets are blanks.
noun:  (figuratively) Something decided by chance.
noun:  (obsolete) Allotment; a thing allotted.

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