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Lottery vs Competition - What's the difference?

lottery | competition |

As nouns the difference between lottery and competition

is that lottery is a scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance, especially a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, the other tickets are blanks while competition is the action of competing.

lottery

English

(wikipedia lottery)

Noun

(lotteries)
  • A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance, especially a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, the other tickets are blanks.
  • (figuratively) An affair of chance.
  • (obsolete, Shakespeare) Allotment; a thing allotted.

    • competition

    English

    (wikipedia competition)

    Noun

  • (label) The action of competing.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
  • (label) A contest for a prize or award.
  • The competitors in such a contest.

    • Antonyms

    * (action of competing) cooperation

    Derived terms

    * competitioner * economic competition

    Related terms

    * competitive