numbers game
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numbers game
noun numbers games
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A lottery in which bettors attempt to guess which numbers will later be drawn randomly; especially, an illicit one.
Back in that day, mafias ran the numbers games and there was no such thing as a state lottery.
Similar: numbers[Appendix:Glossary
- The incorrect use of statistics (numbers) to reflect a desired result (usually misleading). They're playing a numbers game to make it look like seat belts and vaccines are dangerous.
- An activity that benefits from having many things to work with or on; a focus on quantity. In this business, breakeven is a numbers game: if you can achieve enough volume, you'll be all right.
- A game or sport that is dominated by analytics. Somehow, to me, it's not quite as fun now that they've turned it into a numbers game.
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noun an activity that benefits from having many things to work with or on; a focus on quantity
| Español | cuestión de números, cuestión numeraria |
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title = {numbers game},
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