bookmaking
Americannoun
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the process or skilled trade of producing physical books, including everything from designing to printing and binding.
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the work or trade of a bookmaker; the practice of determining odds and accepting bets, especially for the sport of horse racing.
Example Sentences
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A bartender in his younger days, Burton was arrested for bookmaking in 1962, but was cleared.
From Los Angeles Times
She helped build the group into one of the biggest online gambling companies from her father's bookmaking business.
From BBC
We’re in the bookmaking business.
From Los Angeles Times
They describe the episode as a public relations fiasco that at one point had tied Ohtani himself — falsely, prosecutors say — to payments made in the bookmaking underworld.
From Los Angeles Times
The man who took Ippei Mizuhara’s bets entered a guilty plea to running an illegal bookmaking operation.
From Los Angeles Times
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