Similar words: rambling, trembling, gamble, sibling, gambol, ramble, scramble, preamble. Meaning: ['gæmblɪŋ] n. the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize).
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151 They also express concern about the addiction and underage gambling they believe will be the inevitable partners of online gambling.
152 McAllister said two Las Vegas casinos have recently inquired about obtaining online gambling licenses in Antigua.
153 The two girls, it transpired, did not work in a cabaret but assisted at a gambling salon.
154 He abolished onerous taxes and puritanically banned prostitution, opium, gambling, even liquor.
155 A broader category of 38 gambling stocks has dropped 32 % since the beginning of 1994.
156 A 29-year-old man was shot and killed today after an argument over a gambling debt.
157 The social consequences of compulsive gambling and risk-taking, workaholism, compulsive overspending and other behavioural addictions can be utterly destructive.
158 Gambling and crowd disorder was customary but there is no question that Clarke and his boys were missionaries.
159 San Francisco police have said they suspect some Hip Sing members were involved in gambling and prostitution.
160 By night the mood changed, there was dining, dancing and gambling.
161 They drank less and saved instead of gambling away their earnings.
162 Her husband spent all their money gambling on horse races.
163 He was also, by reputation, an alcoholic who needed the money to pay his gambling debts.
164 At Cambridge he showed little aptitude for study and tended to be diverted by horse-racing and other forms of gambling.
165 The Prime Minister My hon. Friend is right about defence and we have no intention of gambling with this country's defence.
166 The killing was the result of a long-standing vendetta over gambling profits.
167 Although he enjoyed gambling, this was not a time for such activities; he needed a clear head at all times.
168 He is an unfaithful husband who spends his days gambling and drinking in the cafes of Madrid.
169 I'm not going to Vegas. To start with, I don't like gambling, and I also can't get time off work.
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170 Especially when the players themselves happily accept the high stakes for which they play, gambling with their bodies.
171 Could Eddie have run out of that corner deliberately because he couldn't face the consequences of his gambling?
172 No temptation Thus, persistent gambling or the squandering of large sums of money upon it has been regarded as a sin.
173 They include travel, gambling, and expenditure on books, magazines, and newspapers.
174 Low profile Usually campaigns against gambling are the prerogative of the fiercer Protestant denominations.
175 Legislation to legalize casino gambling could be introduced in Congress next fall.
176 The prince is known for his love of women, gambling, and booze.
177 In her study of 496 heavy computer users, she said pathological gambling is the closest type of addiction.
178 When gambling with Nature, it pays to have a strong hand.
179 He always demanded the best food available and the use of our big room every Sunday night for gambling with his cronies.
180 Many judges have allowed abuse defenses but reject compulsive gambling syndrome.