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Sweepstakes   /swˈipstˌeɪks/   Listen
Sweepstakes

noun
1.
A lottery in which the prize consists of the money paid by the participants.





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"Sweepstakes" Quotes from Famous Books



... international steeple-chase founded in 1874—the first time with Miss Hungerford in the year just mentioned, and again with Congress in 1877. This prize, the most important of the steeple-chase purses in France, amounts to twelve hundred sovereigns, added to a sweepstakes of twenty sovereigns each, with twelve sovereigns forfeit—or only two sovereigns if declared by the published time—and is open to horses of four years old and upward. It is run in the early part of June. ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 • Various


Words linked to "Sweepstakes" :   plural form, drawing, plural, lottery


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