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GAMBLERS [15 records]

Record 1 2022-08-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
  • Taxation
CONT

... a group of cash facilitators were loaning large sums of cash to high-limit gamblers, who often paid back the debt using a cross-border value and payment transfer system, which allows for cash to be advanced in one country and the debt repaid in another.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Fiscalité

Spanish

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Record 2 2022-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Inhabitant Names and Names of Peoples
OBS

Gamblers : band name taken from the 2002 Indian Registration and Band Lists Directorate's data base of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada(INAC).

OBS

Gamblers : band located in Manitoba.

OBS

Linguistic group: Algonquian.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms d’habitants et noms de peuples
OBS

Gamblers : nom de bande entériné par le ministère des Affaires indiennes et du Nord canadien (MAINC).

OBS

Gamblers : bande vivant au Manitoba.

OBS

Famille linguistique : Algonquien.

Spanish

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Record 3 2020-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Games of Chance
  • Lotteries
CONT

Sucker bet (Dewdney) - A gambling wager in which your expected return is significantly lower than the wager.

CONT

... given the rigid game structure, the artificial winning caps and the minimal impact(if any) of sports-related knowledge, sports lottery parlay games offer overwhelming odds against a player's succeeding on a regular basis. Without some kind of system to "beat the house, "you could not reasonably expect to earn a profit. However, Professor Smith said that he knew of no system that could "beat the house" in sports lottery parlay games. Because there is no such system, and the odds are so overwhelming, professional gamblers do not play parlay bets, which they call "sucker bets. "

French

Domaine(s)
  • Jeux de hasard
  • Loteries
DEF

Type de pari avec une très grande supériorité de la maison.

OBS

Équivalents proposés par la Société des loteries et des jeux de l'Ontario (SLJO).

Spanish

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Record 4 2019-11-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Games of Chance
CONT

A professional gambler is a person who lives from gambling … Professional gamblers are actually earning their paychecks by making the right bets when they play at … casino tables.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Jeux de hasard

Spanish

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Record 5 2019-01-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
  • Union Organization
OBS

In the last third of the nineteenth century... the Knights of Labor emerged. At first it was a secret society which all but "lawyers, gamblers or liquor dealers and Pinkerton detectives" could join.... The Knights represented an attempt to form one great labor union to speak for all labor.

Key term(s)
  • Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labour
  • Knights of Labour

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités
  • Organisation syndicale
DEF

Mouvement ouvrier américain fondé à Philadelphie en 1869, qui groupait les travailleurs en fonction de leur appartenance à une industrie plutôt qu'à un métier et qui préconisait l'abolition du salariat, l'action politique et le coopératisme.

Spanish

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Record 6 2012-10-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Games of Chance
  • Offences and crimes
DEF

The illegal practice of deliberately limiting the number of points scored by one's team in an athletic contest, as in return for a payment from gamblers to ensure winnings.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Jeux de hasard
  • Infractions et crimes

Spanish

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Record 7 2010-04-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lotteries
CONT

... adults may unwittingly encourage a gambling addiction in youth. For example, giving scatch-and-win cards as Christmas or birthday presents to children who are too young to buy them on their own.

CONT

Thanks to the Lotto and scratch cards and online casinos, more women than ever before are developing a gambling problem.

CONT

Most women are classified as "escape" gamblers who play repetitive, mind-numbing games like bingo, slot machines or scratch-off lottery cards.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Loteries
CONT

Au Québec, les jeux de hasard et d'argent se retrouvent sous différentes formes comme les casinos, les jeux de cartes, les loteries, les «gratteux», les bingos, les appareils de loterie vidéo, les courses de chevaux et les paris sportifs.

CONT

Combien de gens ont développé une dépendance à cause des gratteux et autres billets de loterie?

Spanish

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Record 8 2008-05-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
  • Games of Chance
CONT

To determine the impact of knowledge and skill on bet outcome, Ladouceur et al. compared the outcomes of four betting strategies :(1) random selection,(2) experienced gamblers,(3) racetrack picks, and(4) newspaper picks.

OBS

newspaper picks: term usually used in the plural.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
  • Jeux de hasard

Spanish

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Record 9 2006-10-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Card Games
  • Games of Chance
DEF

The last person on the table to receive cards (usually 7th spot).

OBS

Term often used by gamblers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Jeux de cartes
  • Jeux de hasard
DEF

Dernière personne à recevoir des cartes (habituellement le 7e siège).

OBS

Terme souvent employé par [des] joueurs(euses).

Spanish

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Record 10 2004-09-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Games of Chance
DEF

Gambling practice of determining odds and receiving and paying off bets on the outcome of sporting events (particularly horse races), political contests, and other competitions.

CONT

Horse racing is perhaps most closely associated with bookmaking, but boxing, baseball, football, basketball, and other sports have also long been of interest to bookmakers("bookies") and gamblers. Morning-line odds, established by legal bookmakers, are printed in the sports sections of newspapers throughout the U. S.

CONT

They learn about every aspect of bookmaking, including calculating bets, administration, customer service, business skills, managing staff, betting laws and company policies.

CONT

The Commission emphasized that the definition of the relevant geographical market depended not on the technical feasibility of retransmitting French sound and pictures throughout the Community, but on a number of other factors, such as the habits of bettors, the type of betting offered (totalizator or bookmaking) and the countries in which races were organized, in other words the structure of supply and demand, which was determined by the betting markets themselves and by the differences between the various national laws.

OBS

Some Commonwealth countries (including the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand), Belgium, and Germany permit the open operation of bookmaking organizations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Jeux de hasard
CONT

La Commission a souligné que la définition du marché géographique en cause dépendait non pas du critère de la faisabilité technique de la retransmission des sons et images français dans toute la Communauté, mais de plusieurs autres facteurs tels que les habitudes des parieurs, le type des paris offerts (pari mutuel, bookmaking) et les pays dans lesquels des courses sont organisées, c'est-à-dire de la structure de l'offre et de la demande, déterminée par les marchés des paris eux-mêmes, ainsi que des différences entre les législations nationales en la matière.

Spanish

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Record 11 2001-04-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Penal Law
  • Games of Chance
CONT

Of course, using skilled gamblers in this role would increase the "laundered" return on gambled funds.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit pénal
  • Jeux de hasard
CONT

Bien entendu, le recours à des joueurs compétents dans ce rôle augmente les chances de rentabiliser les paris.

Spanish

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Record 12 2001-04-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Proverbs and Maxims
OBS

A gambler's metaphor, after Julius Caesar's exclamation before crossing the Rubicon.

Key term(s)
  • alea jacta est

French

Domaine(s)
  • Proverbes et dictons
OBS

La décision est prise irrévocablement.

Spanish

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Record 13 2000-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Games of Chance
DEF

An organized tour of gamblers who receive low travel rates in exchange for gambling a predetermined amount of money.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Jeux de hasard
OBS

Voyage organisé pour joueurs de casinos. Les dépenses sont payées moyennant promesse de jouer un certain montant ou un certain nombre d'heures.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Juegos de azar
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Record 14 1999-12-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
  • Manias
OBS

Problem gambling is defined as "a pattern of gambling behaviour, which may compromise, disrupt or damage family, personal or vocational pursuits. "Problem gambling includes, but is not limited to, compulsive or pathological gambling. [Ottawa-Carleton Regional District Health Council : Initiative to Develop a Model for Treatment Services for Problem and Compulsive Gamblers, Judith Nolté, January 11, 1998, p. 4. ]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
  • Manies

Spanish

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Record 15 1980-08-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance
OBS

In the last third of the nineteenth century, out of the populist revolt against "big interests", the Knights of Labor emerged. At first it was a secret society which all but "lawyers, bankers, gamblers or liquor dealers, and Pinkerton detectives" could join.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances
OBS

Un gros bonnet: un personnage éminent, influent.

Spanish

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