Another Name For Gambling

The name ‘blackjack’ was an American innovation, and linked to special promotions in Nevada casinos in the 1930s. To attract extra customers, 10 to 1 odds were paid out if the player won with a black Jack of Clubs or Spades together with an Ace of Spades. The special odds didn’t last long, but the name is still with us today. Gambling (also known as betting) is the wagering of money or something of value (referred to as 'the stakes') on an event with an uncertain outcome, with the primary intent of winning money or material goods. Gambling thus requires three elements to be present: consideration (an amount wagered), risk (chance), and a prize.

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Please find below many ways to say gambling in different languages. This is the translation of the word 'gambling' to over 100 other languages. Saying gambling in European Languages. Saying gambling in Asian Languages. Saying gambling in Middle-Eastern Languages. Define gambling. Gambling synonyms, gambling pronunciation, gambling translation, English dictionary definition of gambling. The activity of playing a game for stakes or betting on an uncertain outcome. The business of operating facilities where such activities take.

gam·bling

(găm′blĭng)n.

Gambling

Noun

1.

gambling - the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize); 'his gambling cost him a fortune'; 'there was heavy play at the blackjack table' gaming, play diversion, recreation - an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates; 'scuba diving is provided as a diversion for tourists'; 'for recreation he wrote poetry and solved crossword puzzles'; 'drug abuse is often regarded as a form of recreation' sporting life - active interest in gambling on sports events wager, bet - the act of gambling; 'he did it on a bet' gambling game, game of chance - a game that involves gambling vice - a specific form of evildoing; 'vice offends the moral standards of the community' throw - casting an object in order to determine an outcome randomly; 'he risked his fortune on a throw of the dice'

gambling

gambling

[ˈgæmblɪŋ]

gambling

[ˈgæmblɪŋ]n → jeum
He likes gambling → Il aime le jeu.gambling man n (= gambler) → joueurm
Are you a gambling man, Mr Graham? → Êtes-vous joueur, M. Graham?

gambling

gamble

(ˈgӕmbl) verb nounˈgambler nounˈgambling

Another Name For Gambling Houses

nountake a gamble

gambling

→ مُقَامَرَة hazardní hra hasardspilGlücksspielτζόγοςjuego

Another Name For Casino Gambling

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gambling

n juego (apostando); — addiction (fam) adicción f al juego
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The Commission in November launched a consultation seeking feedback on its plans to introduce requirements to act on the information they have about a consumer’s potential vulnerability.

This included licensees putting in place stronger requirements, such as defined affordability assessments at thresholds set by the regulator.

However the GBG has criticised the proposal, saying affordability checks would risk increasing the “current low incidence of problem gambling”, as well as undo much of the work done by the Commission, operators, safer gambling agencies and charities.

The GBG also referenced the mooted creation of a monthly discretionary spend ceiling, which cross-party think-tank the Social Market Foundation said should be set at £23 a week, or £100 a month.

“I would like to stress from the outset that although the Gambling Commission’s affordability proposal has been framed in relation to online players, it would be naïve in the extreme to assume that the principles and philosophy will not be extended to all gambling entertainment activities across all verticals including adult gaming centres, licensed betting offices and bingo clubs in some shape or form,” GBG chief executive Peter Hannibal (pictured) said.

Hannibal added that the main reason for concern was that he felt affordability checks may drive players away from regulated and responsible sites to unregulated offshore operators. This, he said, could lead to problem gambling rates rising above 1%.

“Currently the demand to play on unregulated sites is limited but the unintended and I assume unforeseen consequences of affordability checks will be to create such a market and then to sustain it,” he said.

“Make no mistake, this is prohibition by another name and wherever you look in the world prohibition has never worked and will never work, more than often creating exactly the set of problems that it sets out to address.”

Hannibal also said he had contacted the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) about the issue, saying it was “illogical” for the Commission to be proposing new measures while the Gambling Act Review, which the government launched last month.

Instead, Hannibal said that such proposals should be put forward as part of the Review and scrutinised by the DCMS and government before coming into effect.

“The affordability proposal raises a huge range of quite fundamental ethical, legal and practical issues – not least a precedent for state intervention in consumer spending alongside a quite startling presumption that gambling entertainment, enjoyed responsibly by 99% of consumers, represents a public health issue way beyond that of tobacco, excessive alcohol consumption or obesity,” he said.

“As such it merits much deeper, evidence-based scrutiny.”