0 a type of gambling, often on a horse race, in which people pay a small amount of money and choose a particular horse, team, etc. The person who chooses the winning horse, team, etc. receives all the money paid by everyone else. -- （通常指賽馬的）賭金全贏制
Although the running of the sweepstake would be done by local helpers, the cost would be kept down to a minimum.
I will settle for £20 million for the hospitals, which would mean that the sweepstake itself would be raising funds of about £50 million a year.
Anyone who has visited that colony knows what success it has had with its sweepstake.
At the moment, all sweepstake lotteries, except for one or two specialised ones, are illegal in this country.
A sweepstake was got up by the men, but the firm had nothing to do with it.
I am informed that there is no foundation for the statement that the firm are conducting a sweepstake.
Why should we not have a similar sweepstake here?
I am wondering what happens supposing the promoter is found not to be very satisfactory in his conducting of the sweepstake.
