bookmaking

[book-mayk-ing]

noun

1. the process or skilled trade of producing physical books, including everything from designing to printing and binding.

2. the work or trade of a bookmaker; the practice of determining odds and accepting bets, especially for the sport of horse racing.

Example Sentences

A bartender in his younger days, Burton was arrested for bookmaking in 1962, but was cleared.

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She helped build the group into one of the biggest online gambling companies from her father's bookmaking business.

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We’re in the bookmaking business.

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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.

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The man who took Ippei Mizuhara’s bets entered a guilty plea to running an illegal bookmaking operation.

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