English-French translations for lottery

• loterie
  On pourrait tout aussi bien organiser une loterie. We might just as well organise a lottery.
  Nous connaissons la tricherie des loteries promotionnelles et bien d'autres exemples encore. We know about cheating on the lottery and much more besides.
  Elle rappelle pourtant davantage un billet de loterie truqué. It is more reminiscent of a fake lottery ticket.

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