gambling

noun
🔊/ˈɡæmblɪŋ/
🔊/ˈɡæmblɪŋ/
[uncountable]
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  1. the activity of playing games of chance for money and of betting on horses, etc.赌博;打赌;赌钱
    • online/internet gambling在线/互联网赌博
    • The police are trying to stop all illegal gambling.警方正设法禁止一切非法赌博活动。
    • The commission licenses and regulates casino gambling and horse racing in the state.该委员会许可并监管该州的赌场赌博和赛马。
    • He ran up heavy gambling debts.他负债累累。
    • an illegal gambling den非法赌博窝
    • to have a gambling addiction/habit有赌博成瘾/习惯
    Extra Examples
    • He went to a psychiatrist about his compulsive gambling.他去看精神科医生以戒除赌瘾。
    • If I were a gambling man, I'd put my money on him resigning soon.我要是个赌徒的话,就会赌他马上辞职。
    • internet gambling sites因特网上的赌博网站
    • online gambling operations网上的赌博营运
    • She ran up gambling debts worth a million pounds.她的赌债累计已达100 万英镑。
    Topics Moneyc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • compulsive
    • pathological
    • problem
    verb + gambling
    • legalize
    • ban
    gambling + noun
    • casino
    • club
    • den
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