Gambling

Definition

gamble / 'gæmbl / v ~ sth (on sth) (ျမင္း) ေလာင္းသည္။ (ဖဲ) ႐ိုက္သည္၊ ကစားသည္။ ေလာင္းကစားသည္။ gamble at cards/ on the horses ❍ He spends all his time gambling in the casino. ❍ He gambled all his winnings on the last race. n (usu sing ) အရဲစြန္႔ျခင္း။ စြန္႔စားျခင္း။ Setting up this business was a bit of a gamble. ❍ The company took a gamble by cutting the price of their products, and it paid off (ie was financially successful). ❏ gamble sth away [ PHRV ] ေလာင္းကစား ပစ္သည္။ gamble away all one's money. ❏ gamble in sth [ PHRV ] စြန္႔သည္။ အရဲစြန္႔သည္။ gamble in oil shares. ❏ gamble on sth/ doing sth [ PHRV ] (ရလိုရျငား၊ ျဖစ္လို ျဖစ္ျငား) ေမွ်ာ္ကိုးသည္၊ ယံုစားသည္။ gamble on (having) sb's support ❍ I wouldn't gamble on the weather being fine tomorrow. ❏ gambler / 'gæmblǝ(r) / n ေလာင္းကစားသမား။ He's a compulsive gambler. ❏ gambling / gæmblÇŋ / n [U] (က) ေလာင္းကစားျခင္း။ heavy gambling debts ❍ a gambling den. (ခ) စြန္႔စားျခင္း။ have a taste for gambling.

Examples

1. We used to gamble at the casino in Monte Carlo.
2. [gamble on] : The improved atmosphere persuaded some foreign investors to gamble on a recovery.
3. [gamble that] : Mr Bush is gambling that his idea will attract support from the public.