Meaning of "betting" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF BETTING

betting  [ˈbetɪŋ]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BETTING

Betting is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BETTING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Gambling

Gambling is the wagering of money or something of material value on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money and/or material goods. Gambling thus requires three elements be present: consideration, chance and prize. Typically, the outcome of the wager is evident within a short period. The term gaming in this context typically refers to instances in which the activity has been specifically permitted by law. The two words are not mutually exclusive; i.e., a “gaming” company offers “gambling” activities to the public and may be regulated by one of many gaming control boards, for example, the Nevada Gaming Control Board. However, this distinction is not universally observed in the English-speaking world. For instance, in the UK, the regulator of gambling activities is called the Gambling Commission. The word gaming is used more frequently since the rise of computer games to describe activities that do not necessarily involve wagering, especially online gaming, with the new usage still not having displaced the old usage as the primary definition in common dictionaries.

Definition of betting in the English dictionary

The definition of betting in the dictionary is laying of wagers. Other definition of betting is the betting on sth predictions on the outcome.

SYNONYMS OF «BETTING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «betting» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of betting

alternative · ante · assume · chance · choice · conjecture · course of action · deduce · deem · expect · fancy · feeling · flutter · gamble · guess · hazard · imagine · infer · long shot · opinion · option · plan · pledge · prediction · punt · risk · speculate · speculation · stake · suspect · venture · view · wager

TRANSLATION OF BETTING

Find out the translation of betting to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of betting from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «betting» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 打赌
• Translator English - Spanish: apuesta
• English: betting
• Translator English - Hindi: सट्टेबाजी
• Translator English - Arabic: مُراهَنَة
• Translator English - Russian: делать ставку
• Translator English - Portuguese: aposta
• Translator English - Bengali: পণ
• Translator English - French: pari
• Translator English - Malay: Pertaruhan
• Translator English - German: Wetten
• Translator English - Japanese: 賭け事
• Translator English - Korean: 내기
• Translator English - Javanese: Taruhan
• Translator English - Vietnamese: sự cá cược
• Translator English - Tamil: பந்தய
• Translator English - Marathi: बेटिंग
• Translator English - Turkish: bahis
• Translator English - Italian: scommesse
• Translator English - Polish: zakłady
• Translator English - Ukrainian: парі
• Translator English - Romanian: pariuri
• Translator English - Greek: στοίχημα
• Translator English - Afrikaans: verbintenis
• Translator English - Swedish: vadslagning
• Translator English - Norwegian: veddemål

10 QUOTES WITH «BETTING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word betting.

1

Shirley Booth

I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine.

2

Beth Brooke

Some companies are already investing in women and thereby betting on a brighter future - for a workforce just waiting to blossom, for emerging economies whose development depends on this new talent, and, of course, for their own financial growth.

3

Edward Burns

I'm betting that in two years I'll be talking to you about a film that I shot on an iPhone. It's absolutely coming, I have no doubt in my mind.

4

Graydon Carter

Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B should be called banks. The rest should call themselves what they are. 'Parlors' would be appropriate, or 'dens' - words more suitable to venerable betting pursuits.

5

Frank Delaney

First a piece of Irish wisdom: you should always listen to a bookie. For they have a saying, 'Money tells a good story,' and somewhere in their odds is a kind of science-fiction existentialism that decrees that we, the people, know everything. In other words, betting patterns often make for good, unconscious soothsaying.

6

Bruce Dern

Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.

7

Bob Ehrlich

We're betting, at this place and this time, we have people ready for change in the state of Maryland.

8

W. C. Fields

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

9

Drew Goddard

I understand why offices need to have office parties. I understand why offices need to have betting pools. No matter what the job, you need things to foster camaraderie and let off steam.

10

Betty Grable

You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BETTING»

Discover the use of betting in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to betting and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Sharp Sports Betting

Advice on betting sports for beginners to experts.

Stanford Wong, 2001

How to Win at Greyhound Betting

Why is that? Well, there are many reasons but most of them centre on these two things: Lack of a proven system and Greed. This book closely examine these two points, and offers techniques and systems for achieving consistant wins.

Samuel Blankson, 2005

Exotic Betting: How to Make the Multihorse, Multirace Bets ...

In "Exotic Betting," the horseplayer takes a colorful wagering ride by learning to maximize profits by betting on a multitude of exotic wagers including the daily double, exacta, trifecta, quinella, superfecta, pick 3, 4, and 6.

Steven Crist, 2006

Betting the Line: Sports Wagering in American Life

This book challenges many long-standing myths and stereotypes that revolve around the enterprise, arguing that sports gambling is reflective of the American free enterprise culture.

Richard O. Davies, Richard G. Abram, 2001

Sports Betting: Law and Policy: Law and Policy

This book also includes a review of sports betting under European Union (EU) Law. The book appears in the ASSER International Sports Law Series, under the editorship of Dr. Robert Siekmann, Dr. Janwillem Soek and Marco van der Harst LL.M.

Paul M. Anderson, Ian S. Blackshaw, Robert C.R. Siekmann, 2011

Betting on Lives: The Culture of Life Insurance in England, ...

By examining the rise of life insurance institutions in 18th-century England, this book offers fresh insight into the history of a commercial society learning to apply speculative techniques to the management of risk.

Geoffrey Wilson Clark, 1999

Betting on Theories

This book is a major new contribution to decision theory, focusing on the question of when it is rational to accept scientific theories.

Patrick Maher, 1993

Weighing the Odds in Sports Betting

The purpose of this book is to give you tools to succeed at sports betting, to show you how to evaluate, compare and view sports betting from an analytical perspective, not from a gambling perspective.

King Yao, 2007

Binary Trading: Profitable strategies for binary betting

A new type of betting has emerged which has become the fastest growing area of betting today - binary bets. John Piper's 'Binary Betting' is the definitive guide to getting started with binary betting.

John Piper, 2009

Racetrack Betting: The Professor's Guide to Strategies

"Not only is this a very serious book on a topic of broad interest, but, even better, it is quite readable." Management Accounting

Peter Asch, 1991

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BETTING»

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Atlantic City betting big on non-gambling attractions

Atlantic City's efforts to recapture some of the tourism dollars it lost to casino competition in recent years finally appear to be working. Nine years ... «Concord Monitor, Jul 15»

The betting odds suggest Britain is more likely to leave the …

"Betting markets favor their euro zone membership staying intact until the end of the year at least," Ladbrokes spokesman Alex Donohue said of ... «Business Insider, Jul 15»

MLB betting lines for Monday, July 6

Below are the Major League Baseball betting lines for Monday, courtesy of the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook. For insight on every game, ... «ESPN, Jul 15»

Betting: USA favourites to retain Gold Cup

Having lifted the trophy for the fifth time two years ago, the USA will be hoping to retain their title when the Concacaf Gold Cup kicks off on ... «Goal.com, Jul 15»

Betting site 'wildly wrong' on Greek vote, pays out for mistake

A betting site was so confident Greek voters would say “yes” it paid out by mistake. Meanwhile, it has new odds on who could leave the euro. «Fortune, Jul 15»

Betting: Punters back Hiddink for vacant Leicester City job

It's been a week since Nigel Pearson and Leicester City parted company but it seems the Midlands club are no closer to appointing a successor ... «Goal.com, Jul 15»

TD joins chorus of economists betting on a recession due to oil's slide

Canada's second largest bank cut its economic outlook for Canada over the weekend. TD Bank is betting that conditions will continue to ... «bnn.ca, Jul 15»

MLB betting cheat sheet: Greinke stealing the show in LA

White Sox ace Chris Sale is coming off eight consecutive starts with 10 or more strikeouts, tying him with Pedro Martinez. He can set a new ... «Covers.com, Jul 15»

Rugby World Cup 2015 betting odds: Why it's most definitely worth …

Rugby World Cup 2015 betting odds: Why it's most definitely worth sticking a tenner on Wales. 15:54, 6 July 2015; By Alex Bywater ... «WalesOnline, Jul 15»

Botswana's hearing aid pioneers are betting on solar power to go …

Six years after developing the prototype of a solar-powered hearing aid, Deaftronics, a Botswana-based company, is readying to take its ... «Quartz, Jul 15»