numbers racket

Serbo-Croat translation: ilegalna dnevna lutrija

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English term or phrase:numbers racket
Serbo-Croat translation:ilegalna dnevna lutrija
Entered by: Ljiljana Malovic

15:15 May 29, 2005
English to Serbo-Croat translations [PRO]
Sports / Fitness / Recreation / boxing
English term or phrase: numbers racket
Don King was the number Czar in Cleveland, a small time cook on the city's numbers racket.

Prica o bivsem Tajsonovom menadzeru Donu Kingu.
Bogdan Petrovic
Serbia
Local time: 13:09
ilegalna dnevna lutrija
Explanation:
to je barem objasnjenje koje daje Thessaurus (pod brojem 5 je Numbers Racket)

1. lottery - players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed according to the drawing of lots drawing
2. tombola - a lottery in which tickets are drawn from a revolving drum
3. gambling game, game of chance - a game that involves gambling
4. lucky dip - a game in which prizes (e.g., candies or coins) are concealed in a container and for a small sum a player can draw one out at random
5. numbers game, numbers pool, NUMBERS RACKET, numbers - an illegal daily lottery
6. raffle - a lottery in which the prizes are goods rather than money
7. sweepstake, sweepstakes - a lottery in which the prize consists of the money paid by the participants

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/lottery

Veoma bitno je da se u ovom slucaju izvlacenje vrsi svakodnevno - u tome je razlika izmedju ove i ostalih lutrija, lota, binga, sportskih prognoza itd.)
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Ljiljana Malovic
Netherlands
Local time: 13:09
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upravo tako, hvala!
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4 +1vrsta ilegalnog klađenja odnosno loto na crno
MayaImp
4ilegalna dnevna lutrija
Ljiljana Malovic


  

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vrsta ilegalnog klađenja odnosno loto na crno


Explanation:
evo ti jedan članak o tome kako to sve funkcioniše
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/29/nyregion/29numbers.html?ex...

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/25/nyregion/25numbers.html?ex...

MayaImp
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ilegalna dnevna lutrija


Explanation:
to je barem objasnjenje koje daje Thessaurus (pod brojem 5 je Numbers Racket)

1. lottery - players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed according to the drawing of lots drawing
2. tombola - a lottery in which tickets are drawn from a revolving drum
3. gambling game, game of chance - a game that involves gambling
4. lucky dip - a game in which prizes (e.g., candies or coins) are concealed in a container and for a small sum a player can draw one out at random
5. numbers game, numbers pool, NUMBERS RACKET, numbers - an illegal daily lottery
6. raffle - a lottery in which the prizes are goods rather than money
7. sweepstake, sweepstakes - a lottery in which the prize consists of the money paid by the participants

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/lottery

Veoma bitno je da se u ovom slucaju izvlacenje vrsi svakodnevno - u tome je razlika izmedju ove i ostalih lutrija, lota, binga, sportskih prognoza itd.)


Ljiljana Malovic
Netherlands
Local time: 13:09
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8
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