A parlay or accumulator is a single bet that links together two or more individual wagers and is dependent on all of those wagers winning together. The benefit of the parlay is that there are much higher payoffs than placing each individual bet separately since the difficulty of hitting it is much higher. B2 the activity of betting money, for example in a game or on a horse race: Gambling can be an addictive habit. He had to borrow money to pay off his gambling debts.
- Gambling is mentioned in the Quran, alongside drinking alcohol as an abomination, a sin, and a grave harm to mankind. It was made clear that prosperity does not come through gambling. Gambling, among many other things, causes families to break, societies to suffer, and the economy to deteriorate, damaging the ethical foundation of any decent.
- Traduction gambling dans le dictionnaire Anglais - Francais de Reverso, voir aussi 'gambling man',gaming',gambling man',grumbling', conjugaison, expressions idiomatiques.
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