noun, verb
noun a way of making money for a particular project or organization. People buy tickets with numbers on them and some of these numbers are later chosen to win prizes:
raffle prizes / tickets * I won this bottle of wine in a raffle.
compareLOTTERY
verb [VN] to give sth as a prize in a raffle:
The toys will be raffled for charity.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for raffle is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does raffle appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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