- the activity of playing games of chance for money and of betting on horses, etc.
- online/internet gambling
- The police are trying to stop all illegal gambling.
- The commission licenses and regulates casino gambling and horse racing in the state.
- He ran up heavy gambling debts.
- an illegal gambling den
- to have a gambling addiction/habit
Extra ExamplesTopics Moneyc1- He went to a psychiatrist about his compulsive gambling.
- If I were a gambling man, I'd put my money on him resigning soon.
- internet gambling sites
- online gambling operations
- She ran up gambling debts worth a million pounds.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- compulsive
- pathological
- problem
- …
- legalize
- ban
- casino
- club
- den
- …
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