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To bookie
noun
A bookmaker, being a person who, or business which, takes bets from the general public on sporting events and similar.
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Waters, who has been shortlisted twice before for the award but has never won, is also odds-on favourite to win the prize, according to bookie William Hill, which puts her at 9/4 to win.
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According to bookies, Kendall is currently the outsider in the leadership race, with odds of 10/1 offered by Ladbrookes.
Ladbrokes had said there were 35% fewer draws - which are favourable to bookies - in the Premier League so far this year.
The Wire Act was passed in 1961 to prevent the use of telegraphs and telephones to send horse-racing information to bookies.
As time went on I was exasperated with my struggles on the plate and went down to 'rookie', and promptly started knocking balls out of the park.
Only in 1998 did Australian officials reveal that three years earlier they had fined two players for providing information on ground conditions to bookies.
They have paid £30m because they expect to make a great deal more from exploiting the rights and by selling advertising slots to bookies in particular.
Here are this year's top ten tipped authors according to bookies Ladbrokes on Wednesday, with Belarusian journalist Svetlana Aleksijevitj leading the pack.
In the last quarter of his life he earned enormous amounts of money, but it often moved from dealers to bookies without touching his bank account.
The league may have been shocked when news broke this summer that Donaghy passed inside information to bookies and bet on games he officiated, but Michael Franzese wasn't.
As he told Art Buchwald, "I had obligations to bookies, dice tables, Ferraris, imported wines and friends I had never met before".
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