verb

to risk money or something valuable in the hope of winning more if you are lucky or if you guess something correctly

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to risk an amount of money by saying what you think will happen, especially in a race or game. You lose the money if you are wrong and win more if you are right

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to risk money by betting it on the result of a race, competition, game etc

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to bet (=risk money) that a particular person or animal will win a race or competition

to risk a particular amount of money by trying to guess the result of a race or competition

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if you place a bet, you give money to someone saying that you think a person, team, animal etc will win a competition

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to bet the same money as another player and to make them show their cards

to bet on something so that you will win money if you are right, but lose it if you are wrong

to win more at gambling than the casino can pay you

to risk a lot of money in an investment or a bet