English-Czech translations for lottery

• loterie
  Jak již bylo řečeno, je nepřijatelné, aby vypadal téměř jako loterie, jejíž výsledek závisí na tom, kde žadatel o azyl podá svou žádost. It is not acceptable, as has already been said, for it to be almost like a lottery depending on where an asylum seeker makes his application.
  Je to jako loterie s procenty: bezmyšlenkovitá a nerealistická hra na tahání čísel z klobouku. This is like a lottery game of percentages: an unpremeditated and unrealistic game of picking numbers out of a hat.

Definition of lottery

• A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance, especially a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, the other tickets are blanks
• Allotment; a thing allotted

Related words

• lottery win
• lottery ticket
• lottery winnings
• lottery tax
• ladder lottery
• Dutch state lottery
• select by lottery
• state lottery