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# gambling

«gambling» in Mova's school dictionary: **playing games or betting money on something whose result…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (gambling, uncountable); verb form of gamble (gamble, gambles, gambled, gambling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Gambling is playing games or betting money on something whose result depends on luck, hoping to win more money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gambling/#m1)

2) Gambling is also taking a big risk in the hope that things will turn out well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gambling/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and safety it names a grown-up activity (casinos, lotteries, betting on horse races or football) that is against the law for children and can become a harmful habit called a gambling addiction. In maths it links to chance and probability: the chances of winning are usually small, and the house usually wins. Phrases: «gambling machine», «online gambling», «gambling problem», «gambling with someone's safety».

### examples

- Gambling is not allowed for children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gambling/#x1)
- My uncle stopped gambling because he kept losing money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gambling/#x2)
- The film showed people gambling at a casino in Las Vegas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gambling/#x3)
- Buying lottery tickets every week is a kind of gambling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gambling/#x4)
- Some video games have loot boxes that feel a lot like gambling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gambling/#x5)
- In maths we learned why gambling usually loses money in the long run. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gambling/#x6)
- Crossing the road without looking is gambling with your life. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gambling/#x7)
- The coach said trying a new player in the final was gambling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gambling/#x8)
- While the tree was advancing, everything else at the castle was going backward, through feasting and gambling, for these are two rollers upon which nobody stands safely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gambling/#x9)

### note

Uncountable noun: say «gambling», not «a gambling». A person who gambles is a «gambler». Do not confuse with «gambolling» (lambs gambolling = jumping playfully). Myth: a losing streak does not make a win «due»; each spin or roll has the same chance. In maths problems about gambling, the expected result is usually a loss for the player.

### In the corpora

- ["When the fun stops, stop" is a warning betting adverts must include, because gambling can become an addiction.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/15/)
- [Gambling is against the law under 18, and a child should never keep a grown-up's gambling or money worries secret.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/18/)
- [Loot boxes work like gambling, and some children have spent hundreds without their parents knowing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers/29/)
- [A loot box is like gambling: you pay without knowing what you will get.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/18/)
- [A loot box, where you pay without knowing what you get, works like gambling.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gambling» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gambling/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.