sweepstake

Earlier this year, several brands set up sweepstakes and giveaways to collect emails from customers who got their Covid-19 vaccination.
How a shoe retailer built up its first-party data using emailed receipts|Erika Wheless|July 9, 2021|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.
Philadelphia is offering extreme vaccine incentives with help from Wharton economists|Annalisa Merelli|June 9, 2021|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.
The US is about to reach a surprise milestone: too many vaccines, not enough takers|Lindsay Muscato|March 22, 2021|MIT Technology Review
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.
‘Anonymous’ fintech startup Millions raises $3 million, gives away cash on Twitter|Sarah Perez|February 2, 2021|TechCrunch

When the team announced its ring sweepstakes in August, a member of Vogel’s baseball family shared the information in a group text.
Meet the Nats fan who won team’s World Series ring raffle — and received his prize on the field|Scott Allen|January 19, 2021|Washington Post
Yet, in the haste of saddling, they found time to arrange a twenty-dollar sweepstake and the allowance for weight.
Winston of the Prairie|Harold Bindloss
Every township in the remote bush has its guinea sweepstake over the Cup, every town hovel its half-crown one.
Town Life in Australia|R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny
In another minute she would be asking him how he had come out on the sweepstake on the ship's run.
Jill the Reckless|P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
Yet in the haste of saddling, they found time to arrange a twenty-dollar sweepstake and the allowance for weight.
The Impostor|Harold Bindloss
The former has, however, now been reduced to 2000 added to a sweepstake of 30 each with a minor forfeit.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6|Various

British Dictionary definitions for sweepstake

sweepstake

esp US sweepstakes

/ (ˈswiːpˌsteɪk) /

noun

a lottery in which the stakes of the participants constitute the prize
the prize itself

any event involving a lottery, esp a horse race in which the prize is the competitors' stakes

Often shortened to: sweep

Word Origin for sweepstake

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

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