bookmaker

bookmaker
   a person who accepts bets for a living
   Not an author but from a shortened form of the 19th-century betting-book maker. Now standard English.

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  • bookmaker — [ bukmɛkɶr ] n. m. • 1855; mot angl. , de book « livre » et maker « celui qui fait » ♦ Celui qui, dans les courses de chevaux, prend des paris et les inscrit. Des bookmakers. Abrév. fam. BOOK [ buk ]. Des books. ● bookmaker nom masculin (mot… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Bookmaker — Book mak er, n. 1. One who writes and publishes books; especially, one who gathers his materials from other books; a compiler. [1913 Webster] 2. (Horse Racing) A betting man who makes a book. See {To make a book}, under {Book}, n. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Bookmaker — (engl., spr. búckmēker), Buchmacher (s. Wette) …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • bookmaker — book·mak·er / bu̇k ˌmā kər/ n: a person who determines odds and receives and pays off bets – called also bookie; Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …   Law dictionary

  • bookmaker — / bʊkmeikə/, it. /buk mɛker/ s. ingl. [comp. di book libro e to make fare ], usato in ital. al masch. [chi registra le scommesse] ▶◀ allibratore …   Enciclopedia Italiana

  • bookmaker — also book maker, 1510s, printer and binder of books, from BOOK (Cf. book) (n.) + agent noun from MAKE (Cf. make) (v.). The wagering sense is from 1862. Related: Book making (late 15c., betting sense 1824) …   Etymology dictionary

  • bookmaker — /bukˈmeker, ingl. ˈbukˌmeɪkə(r)/ [vc. ingl., comp. di book «libro, registro, lista» e maker «compilatore»] s. m. inv. allibratore …   Sinonimi e Contrari. Terza edizione

  • bookmaker — m DEFINICIJA v. bukmejker …   Hrvatski jezični portal

  • bookmaker — ► NOUN ▪ a person whose job is to take bets, calculate odds, and pay out winnings …   English terms dictionary

  • bookmaker — [book′māk΄ər] n. 1. a compiler, publisher, or manufacturer of books 2. a person in the business of taking bets, as on horse races bookmaking n …   English World dictionary

  • Bookmaker — A bookmaker, bookie or turf accountantfact|date=September 2008, is an organization or a person that takes bets and pays winnings depending upon results and, depending on the nature of the bet, the odds. Range of events Most bookmakers in the… …   Wikipedia

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