(n.) That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
(n.) Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; esp., property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.
(n.) An honor or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.
(n.) That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.
(n.) Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.
(n.) A contest for a reward; competition.
(n.) A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.
(v. t.) To move with a lever; to force up or open; to pry.
(v. t.) To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.
(v. t.) To value highly; to estimate to be of great worth; to esteem.
(n.) Estimation; valuation.
Example Sentences:
(1) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
(2) The night's special award went to armed forces broadcaster, BFBS Radio, while long-standing BBC radio DJ Trevor Nelson received the top prize of the night, the gold award.
(3) The 61-year-old paid to transport prize-winning children to the fair in St Thomas and funded their accommodation.
(4) After winning his prize, Malcolm Turnbull must learn from Abbott's mistakes Read more Abbott appointed Warren Mundine to head his hand picked advisory council on Indigenous affairs.
(5) An Artist of the Floating World won the Whitbread Book of the Year award and was nominated for the Booker prize for fiction; The Remains of the Day won the Booker; and When We Were Orphans, perceived by many reviewers as a disappointment, was nominated for both the Booker and the Whitbread.
(6) Three scientists, George Wald, Ragnar Granit, and Haldan Keffer Hartline, were named last week to share the 1967 Nobel prize in medicine or physiology.
(7) The agency notes, too, that the Norwegian broadcaster NRK has form when it comes to announcing peace prize winners early, saying last year the EU had triumphed an hour before the official announcement.
(8) Concern for the future and belief in scientific progress provided the motive for the foundation of the Prize which, in our time, is one of the most coveted of honours.
(9) The launch of M-Farm followed a €10,000 (about £8,500) investment prize.
(10) The young woman is Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, then part of the new guard of dissidents and critics, now the president of Liberia.
(11) How can a prize that is supposed to be for one person be given to an amorphous supranational organisation?
(12) But there was a shock with the Jury prize, which went to Polisse, one of the four films in competition directed by a woman.
(13) For many, free movement is the price that has to be paid for the prize of single market membership.
(14) GNM accepts no responsibility for any costs associated with the prize that are not expressly included in the prize.
(15) The IPCC is charged with providing a scientific, balanced assessment about what's known and what's known about climate change There are lots of organisations ringing bells The IPCC is more like a belltower, which people can climb up to get a clear view 8.41am BST Al Gore , the former US vice-president and winner of the Nobel peace prize for his work on climate change , has responded to the IPCC report by saying it shows the need for a switch to low carbon sources of energy (note his emphasis is on mitigation, i.e.
(16) Peter Vipond, director of regulation and tax at the Association of British Insurers, said: "We are concerned that so far none of the bodies will have a statutory objective to maintain London's competitiveness as a global financial sector – this is too valuable a prize to be thrown away."
(17) Boyle, who on Sunday night received an outstanding contribution prize at the Empire awards, said he was not a fan of stereoscope on film and doubted it would survive.
(18) The possible reasons why Kitasato lost the first Nobel Prize for medicine to von Behring are presented.
(19) The Tasmanian writer said he was “stunned” to be in the running for the prestigious UK-based literary prize, which for the first time has been opened to authors of any nationality.
(20) But NS&I has announced that it is cutting the prize fund rate from 1 May, although the chances of winning a prize will remain the same at 30,000-1 as the number of £25 prizes will increase.
Sweepstake
Definition:
(n.) A winning of all the stakes or prizes.
(n.) A complete removal or carrying away; a clean sweep.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Sun has scrapped a World Cup sweepstake that involved 32 well-known football blogs, after a number of the bloggers criticised the newspaper for not gaining permission to be used in the promotion.
(2) "Will you be keeping a sweepstake count of the Scotland-v-France references that will crop up?"
(3) My auntie Nora combined gambling on the Irish sweepstakes with teaching me my catechism for my first Holy Communion.
(4) It appears that the first major domino might have finally fallen in the NBA’s free-agency sweepstakes.
(5) 10.18am GMT 90min: If you had two minutes of extra time in the office sweepstake you just won the prize.
(6) He went on to establish Guess2Give as an online fundraising platform whose users set up sweepstakes to fundraise.
(7) Debate over the sweepstake has been raging on the Pitch Invasion website , which has provided a list of the blogs it believes did not give permission to the Sun.
(8) Jeter asks: “Why doesn’t he just shut up?” Rodriguez helped create a new phrase in Mets lore – “24 plus one” – which was the verbiage used by then Mets GM Steve Phillips to describe why the team had opted out of the Rodriguez free-agent sweepstakes in 2000.
(9) The online sweepstake, which aimed to promote the Sun's iPhone app, was meant to be a "bit of friendly competition between the best football blogs during the World Cup".
(10) (Full disclosure: I plumped for +0.2% in the office sweepstake).
(11) Bloggers were sent an email saying their sites were to be used in the sweepstake and would receive lots of traffic through the association.
(12) Guess2Give.com Founder Mark Chandler previously worked at a large cancer charity and came up with the ideas for Guess2Give when he ran a successful fundraising sweepstake on his triathlon time, rather than just asking for sponsorship.
(13) Having secured an urgent question on the matter, Yvette Cooper bounced to her feet with all the confidence of someone who had just drawn Brazil in the shadow cabinet World Cup sweepstake.
(14) 17 min: "I am torn, as I have a Kiwi girlfriend, but also Paraguay in the office sweepstake," writes Michael Hunt (yes, Mike Hunt, tee-hee, no need to email in about it).
(15) Until recently the smart money was on a contraction (the sweepstake in our office runs from 0 down to -0.5%) but there was talk yesterday that it could be positive.
(16) "I do, however, have France in the sweepstake at work," he writes, "so I got myself into the spirit of things today by having some brie and grapes at lunch time.
(17) The £18 in the Guardian and Observer Sport sweepstake has been split by Observer production editor Philip Cornwall and Big Website Big Cheese James Dart, who scored nine points each.
(18) As ever, tickets to attend the gigs are being distributed via a mixture of an online sweepstake and competitions run by media partners, from newspapers and radio stations to Twitter and Shazam.
(19) But I have to say, the current shadow chancellor has outperformed him in the fiscal incontinence sweepstakes.
(20) Express newspapers chief Richard Desmond has been urged to increase the amount of cash his new "health lottery", launched on Tuesday, will raise for good causes after the sweepstake was branded a "disgraceful development" by a leading charity figure.