0 past simple and past participle of gamble
1 to do something that involves risks that might result in loss of money or failure, hoping to get money or achieve success:
The government gambled that outcries from vested interests would neutralize each other and that unions would be divided and powerless.
Workers gambled on uninformed port-users, the ambivalent position of ship owners and the satisfaction of private terminal owners to weaken business consensus over port policy.
They gambled that their lives would go better if they pursued a particular relationship, and the gamble failed.
Kabukimono gambled, blackmailed people in the streets, and swaggered in entertainment districts such as the licensed quarter and public bath and theatre areas.
There is some evidence that the attribute that is traded off, or gambled with, becomes salient; that is, people give more importance to this attribute (20).
Such activities would be a demoralizing public spectacle, analogous to tolerating the starvation on the public streets of poor wretches who had gambled unwisely with their lives in other ways.
Beaumarchais therefore gambled on another means.
He gambled that a security scandal would be unearthed, and he lost.
