The word 'sweepstakes' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer a type of contest in which a prize or prizes are given away to randomly selected participants. Example sentence: I entered the sweepstakes with the hope of winning a holiday to the Caribbean.
They are using banners and e-mails to bring traffic to the site and sweepstakes to get users to register.
In a recent CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll (May 7-9), 64 percent of Americans said they had given quite a lot of thought to the upcoming election for president, while only 4 percent said they had given no thought.Cable isn't the only entrant in the real-time news sweepstakes.
Saudi Arabia not known for its lofty standing on global scorecards: it ranks 55th in the latest Human Development Index and near the bottom of gender-related indices came 11th in the World Bank's latest business sweepstakes, ahead of such Scandinavian stalwarts as Finland and Sweden.
But the biggest loser may be America's magazine industry, which has for the past 30 years relied heavily upon sweepstakes to generate new subscriptions.
Viewers can enter sweepstakes, find nearby shops and play branded games.
Trawling for surfers Sweeping changes Question time in Japan The battle for the last mile ReprintsSo if sweepstakes have been running for three decades without causing a political furore, what has suddenly gone wrong?
Adverse publicity has already hit response rates to sweepstakes, which people in the industry say are down by around 60%.
Users enter sweepstakes to win prizes, get discounts or, increasingly, cash in exchange for telling a marketer who they are, ie, registering.
The real chance of winning such sweepstakes is usually around 1 in 150m.So extravagant are the claims by some of the companies running the sweepstakes, and so startling the naivety of some members of the public, that the promoters are now in trouble.
The magazine came to depend on competitions and sweepstakes, particularly to lure younger subscribers.
It is the increasing desperation of the magazine publishers to build circulation in a horribly competitive market that has led to the sweepstakes' more outrageous claims.
