The word 'bookmaker' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a person or company that sets odds and accepts and pays out bets, especially on sporting events. Example: The bookmaker set the odds for the upcoming basketball game, favoring the home team to win.
From private bets, wagering was extended in the 19th century to bookmaking (a bookmaker is a professional bet accepter who tries to set his odds so that a percentage is working in his favour).
Traditional bookmaking, in which the bookmaker set odds in advance and then accepted bets according to them, was by nature a risky profession heavy betting in conjunction with unexpected results (sometimes due to cheating and rigged outcome on matches) could easily lead to his ruin.
Palace, one suspects, may need to think more ambitiously and the final whistle had barely gone before one bookmaker had them as favourites to go straight back down.
The bookmaker Ladbrokes, which offered odds of 5-1 last January against the couple getting engaged in 2013, confirmed that it would pay out, even though the announcement came after midnight New Year's Day, Australian time.
Paddy Power is quoting 11/10 on Greece leaving the euro – and after recent events it's hardly a surprise that the bookmaker is offering the shortest odds ever on a Grexit.
The executioner was André Obrecht, the second chief executioner in France, who made a separate living as a bookmaker and with a business selling ice cream on the Paris cinema circuit.
Guardian Healthcare Professionals Network columnist Richard Vize wrote on his appointment: "Given the enormity of the tasks facing him and the political and cultural inertia blocking progress, a bookmaker would give long odds on Stevens succeeding.
The court heard that he was warned in 2008 by the ICC that he was keeping "highly inappropriate company" over his links with the Indian bookmaker Arun Bhatia.
The Big Mo, or Momentum, continues to build behind Whiplash, by the brilliant young director Damien Chazelle, and surely no-one will be able to find a bookmaker ready to take a bet on JK Simmons for best supporting actor.
One bookmaker has even started paying out on a victory for Mark Reckless, the former Tory MP whose defection to Ukip triggered the contest in the north Kent constituency.
The shares closed at a eight-month low of 141.1p, a fall of 2.3% from Friday when Britain's biggest bookmaker confirmed a rights issue and conceded too few draws had hurt takings.
