lottery

Japanese: lottery
lottery

…A type of gambling in which the organizer sells a large number of lottery tickets and pays the remainder of the proceeds, minus commission and winnings, to the winner of the lottery. In English, it is called lottery, a collective noun of lot (lottery, luck). Lotteries have long been used to predict fortune and luck, and are still used today to select jurors for trials.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "lottery" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…主催者が多数のくじを販売し,売上げから手数料と取得分を差し引いた残りを抽選で当たったものに支払う賭博の一種。英語ではロッテリーlotteryといい,lot(くじ,運)の集合名詞である。くじは豊凶や勝敗を占うものとして古くから用いられ,現在でも裁判の陪審員の選出などにも利用されている。…

※「lottery」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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