- the act of risking money, etc. on the unknown result of an event
- illegal betting
Oxford Collocations DictionaryBetting is used before these nouns:- man
- shop
- slip
- …
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See betting in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarywhat’s the betting…? | the betting is that…
- (informal) it seems likely that…
- What's the betting that he gets his own way?
- The betting is that he'll get his own way.
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