bookmaking

American  

[book-mayk-ing] / ˈbʊkˌmeɪk ɪŋ /

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.

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Example Sentences

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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But over the last week, the world learned how little was truly known about Ohtani’s former right-hand man, who was fired by the Dodgers after being accused of stealing more than $4.5 million to cover debts with an illegal Orange County bookmaking operation.

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Shohei Ohtani’s statement blames his interpreter for wiring huge sums from his bank account to a bookmaking operation but leaves questions unanswered.

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Among the queries that yielded no response from Brettler are whether Ohtani gave Mizuhara access to his bank account and who in his orbit should have been aware of large wire transfers to a bookmaking operation.

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