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sweepstake

[ sweep-steyk ]

noun

  1. a sweepstakes.


sweepstake

/ ˈswiːpˌsteɪk /

noun

    1. a lottery in which the stakes of the participants constitute the prize
    2. the prize itself
  1. any event involving a lottery, esp a horse race in which the prize is the competitors' stakes
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sweepstake1

C15: originally referring to someone who sweeps or takes all the stakes in a game
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Example Sentences

Earlier this year, several brands set up sweepstakes and giveaways to collect emails from customers who got their Covid-19 vaccination.

From Digiday

More recently the city of Philadelphia followed the example, setting up sweepstakes that will award almost $400,000 to 36 winners, with prizes ranging from $50,000 to $1,000.

From Quartz

In some Alaskan towns, meanwhile, people receiving vaccines are entered into sweepstakes with prizes including drums of oil, trips to Hawaii, or cash toward a new vehicle.

Outside of social media personalities and traditional sweepstakes like Publishers Clearing House, the mobile game HQ Trivia more recently had tried to integrate brand giveaways in an attempt to draw players to its live trivia games.

When the team announced its ring sweepstakes in August, a member of Vogel’s baseball family shared the information in a group text.

Yet, in the haste of saddling, they found time to arrange a twenty-dollar sweepstake and the allowance for weight.

Every township in the remote bush has its guinea sweepstake over the Cup, every town hovel its half-crown one.

In another minute she would be asking him how he had come out on the sweepstake on the ship's run.

Yet in the haste of saddling, they found time to arrange a twenty-dollar sweepstake and the allowance for weight.

The former has, however, now been reduced to 2000 added to a sweepstake of 30 each with a minor forfeit.

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