0 to do something that involves risks that might result in loss of money or failure, hoping to get money or achieve success:
1 a risk that might result in loss of money or failure:
Her publishers knew they were taking a gamble when they agreed to publish such an unusual novel.
It was a gamble using such an inexperienced director, but it paid off (= was successful).
2 to risk losing money in the hope of winning a lot more money, esp. if the result of a future event happens as you hope:
3 an action that involves risk but that could have a good result:
4 to do something that involves risk and could fail but that you hope will succeed or make money:
gamble on sth He gambled his political future on the success of the project.
gamble with sth The President warned Republicans not to gamble with Medicare.
Investors gambled that the US interest rate rise would be the last one this year.
Large numbers are gambling on the house price boom - a gamble they may regret if prices fall or interest rates rise.
The second category of poor were those whose deviant nature was expressed both in appeareance (ruinous and presumptuous clothing) and behaviour (gambling, squandering, fornication).
Subjects were asked to evaluate pairs of gambles of comparable expected value.
The same considerations apply when the agent is asked for the highest price at which she would buy the gambles.
Cricket-fighting is a sport in which two male crickets are made to engage in a duel, and it often involves gambling.
Writing an explicit description of the expected utility as a function of gambles is overly complicated and relies on the order of task completions.
In a sense, all of our research and theoretical commitments are gambles, investments we hope will pay off epistemologically.
A married man, who had risked losing his cohabiting girlfriend if he had not agreed to marriage, commented that 'she seemed worth gambling on'.
He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling.
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