0 someone who wins a game, competition, or election: --
UK I think they're onto a winner with this latest product (= it will succeed).
Neil Eaves scored the winner in the last minute of the match.
And to find out who are the lucky winners of our competition, Samantha is going to draw some names out of the bag.
The winner of this match will play Aston Villa in the semifinals.
There'll be a prize for the winner.
1 infml In sports, a winner is also a goal or point that causes a person or a side to win a game: --
2 a person or company that is successful in a particular situation such as a competition, a market, or an election: --
3 something that is very successful and popular: --
In contrast, being among the congressional winners or losers does not seem to make a difference.
Majorities of losers were supportive of proportional representation, while majorities of winners were opposed.
Table 3 also compares big winners (those who never respond as a loser on our three measures) to losers.
The genetic algorithm selection tournament was conducted anew, followed by another application of the crossover and mutation operators on the winners.
Although the values of modesty were never overthrown in the contest itself, the real winners were those women whose exterior beauty was displayed more ostentatiously.
Table 6 reports a final experiment designed to evaluate how winners and losers reason about changing electoral rules.
Market-oriented policy reforms alter the distribution of resources in society, producing winners and losers, and tamper with regulatory and distributive bargains that implicate powerful interests.
Two transitions are necessary - to a market economy and a democratic polity - and each produces losers as well as winners.
