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{
"term": "bet",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "bet",
"heSheIt": "bets"
},
"pastSimple": "bet",
"pastParticiple": "bet",
"ingForm": "betting"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to risk money on a race or an event by trying to predict the result",
"sensetop": "bet on/against somebody/something doing somethingbet on/against somethingbet something on somethingbet somethingbet somebody something (that)bet somebody (that)bet something (that)",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "You have to be over 16 to bet."
},
{
"text": "I wouldn't bet on them winning the next election.",
"contextForm": "bet on/against somebody/something doing something"
},
{
"text": "Not many people are betting against France retaining their title."
},
{
"text": "He likes betting on horses and watching table tennis.",
"contextForm": "bet on/against something"
},
{
"text": "He bet $2 000 on the final score of the game.",
"contextForm": "bet something on something"
},
{
"text": "You shouldn't praise a gambler for betting his life savings if he wins.",
"contextForm": "bet something"
},
{
"text": "She bet me £20 (that) I wouldn't do it.",
"contextForm": "bet somebody something (that)"
},
{
"text": "I bet her (that) the Democrats would not win.",
"contextForm": "bet somebody (that)"
},
{
"text": "He bet ten dollars (that) he could write a complete story in just six words.",
"contextForm": "bet something (that)"
}
],
"topics": ["Money"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "used to say that you are almost certain that something is true or that something will happen",
"sensetop": "bet (that)…bet somebody (that)…",
"labels": "(informal)",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "I bet (that) we’re too late.",
"contextForm": "bet (that)…"
},
{
"text": "You can bet (that) the moment I sit down, the baby will wake up."
},
{
"text": "I'm **willing to bet** (that) the analysts will be wrong."
},
{
"text": "I’ll bet you (that) he knows all about it.",
"contextForm": "bet somebody (that)…"
}
],
"topics": ["Doubt, guessing and certainty", "Opinion and argument"]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to risk everything you have on an investment, a bet, etc.",
"labels": "(North American English, informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The company bet the farm on the new marketing model, only to find that it wasn’t successful."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "used to show that you can understand what somebody is feeling, describing, etc.",
"examples": [
{
"text": "‘I nearly died when he told me.’ ‘I bet!’"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "used to tell somebody that you do not believe what they have just said",
"examples": [
{
"text": "‘I'm going to tell her what I think of her.’ ‘Yeah, I bet!’"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used to say that you do not think that something is very likely",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "‘She'll soon get used to the idea.’ ‘I wouldn't bet on it.’"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used instead of ‘yes’ to emphasize that somebody has guessed something correctly or made a good suggestion",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "‘Are you nervous?’ ‘You bet!’"
}
],
"topics": ["Doubt, guessing and certainty"]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used to say that you are certain that something will happen",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "You can bet your bottom dollar that he'll be late."
}
],
"topics": ["Doubt, guessing and certainty"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/bet/",
"audio": "be/bet/bet__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/bets/",
"audio": "be/bet/bets__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈbetɪŋ/",
"audio": "be/bet/betting__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/bet/",
"audio": "be/bet/bet__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/bets/",
"audio": "be/bet/bets__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈbetɪŋ/",
"audio": "be/bet/betting__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late 16th cent.: perhaps a shortening of the obsolete noun abet ‘abetment’."
}