Synonym: betting odds. Similar words: odd, a good deal, a good deal of. Meaning: [ɑdz /ɒdz] n. 1. the likelihood of a thing occurring rather than not occurring 2. the ratio by which one better's wager is greater than that of another.
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151, But the odds are that even those women who appear impermeable to pain are suffering great hurt behind their face-saving pose.
152, Certainly, such views as these do not sit comfortably with managerialism and are equally at odds with restricted professionality.
153, I sit at the desk with my calculator and figure the odds.
154, Hence 60 years on the name Dunkirk still evokes images of triumph in the face of great odds.
155, Of those commonly identified as potential contenders, he commands some of the shortest odds.
156, He added up the odds, though, and wasn t moony about his chance for enlightenment.
157, The young composer at odds with his family, who want him to follow a less daring course.
158, Improvisation is at odds with the legitimate caution in managerial concerns over decision making, strategy organization design, and compliance.
159, The greedy children were at constant odds with one an-other over control of the kingdom.
160, Third, in a contest between ships and shore batteries, the odds would be against the former.
161, Lupo said oddsmakers use theoretical win percentages to calculate the odds, as they would on a sporting event.
162, They still expected to get cheap baked beans, but would pay over the odds for high-quality fresh food.
163, But the odds being quoted reflect the general consensus that it is a three-horse race between Donegal, Derry and Down.
164, It seems that the lamp and control gear industries are at odds with each other.
165, If the police chief and mayor had not been at odds in 1992, we may not have had a riot.
166, Sometimes overcoming enormous odds, mostly because of racial prejudice, black athletes changed the sporting landscape in the United States.
167, Politics, business, morality, and determination to win against the odds are popular subjects.
168, His disciplinarian approach was seen to be at odds with West Ham's tradition as a freewheeling and creative team.
169, But the role has put him at odds with the United States and stirred controversy in his own country.
170, Its glory days came when Spitfire and Hurricane pilots scrambled to defeat Hitler's Luftwaffe despite overwhelming odds.
171, Odds are that the other person will return the courtesy of an introduction.
172, Frequent shopping also improves your odds of finding a bargain or an item you particularly need.
173, It is certainly better than any horse race, or any other gambling, when the odds are never in your favor.
174, That Jaime Guerrero is alive to attend the dinner probably defies the odds.
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175, Against all odds, the 530 peasants have managed to keep their co-operative alive at El Barillo near the Guazapo volcano.
176, The two, often at odds during work hours, greeted each other like old friends and made lunch plans.
177, The happy couple warring in public, being at odds over what really was the truth.
178, In all he fought 257 combats at Verdun, most of them against heavy odds, and shot down eleven planes.
179, Do you know what the odds are against a house catching fire in the Red Triangle district of Bes Pelargic?
180, Mrs Stoneman, 31, faced an agonising choice when doctors said the radiotherapy tripled the odds in his favour.