betting odds
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- noun
- /ˈbɛtɪŋ ɑdz/
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- The betting odds for the championship match suggest that the underdogs may have a chance to surprise everyone.
Examples
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Get to SBRforum, where you will find live sports betting odds for all NFL matchups and bet with confidence.
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The international betting odds have been clear for years now. As part of his array of cracked pottery, Matthews loves to cite betting odds.
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Are you interested in getting all of the latest football betting odds for upcoming fixtures?
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Looking for the best real-time betting odds?
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Only wanted to boost the betting odds by making the gamblers.
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Betting odds were a touch more remote, about 12% for the European win (not including the tie).
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And if you throw in RFK, his betting odds really haven't moved at all.
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It's no surprise that England fans, despite having their team listed as dark horses in the Euro 2012 betting odds, have no serious expectations from the national team going into the Euros this summer.
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The betting odds have been in his favor for the past year, even though there have been ups and downs, such as his slump in the first presidential debate.
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(I'm sure most of you don't care about the details of the betting odds, but I think there is something wonderfully heathen about gambling on religious and church votes!)
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Synonyms
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3.6
The chance that something will happen, often shown as a number or percent
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The chance that something will happen, often shown by numbers used for betting
How Likely
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'betting' (relating to placing wagers) modifies 'odds' (chance or likelihood), so the meaning 'the odds used for betting / how likely an outcome is in gambling' is directly inferable from the parts. This modifier–noun pattern is common and cross‑linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows 'bet' and 'odds' should understand the expression.
Etymology
Betting odds comes from the simple picture of people taking bets writing odds as numbers like 3 to 1 to show how much you win for each unit you bet. So it now means the numbers that tell you 'how likely something is' and 'how much you can win'.