totalisator
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English
Noun
totalisator (plural totalisators)
- (UK) the computerised system which runs parimutuel betting, calculating payoff odds, displaying them, and producing tickets based on incoming bets.
- 1955, J.L. Austin, How To Do Things With Words:
- For example, I may in some places effect marriage by cohabiting, or I may bet with a totalisator machine by putting a coin in the slot.
- 2018, Anna Rogers, With Them Through Hell, →ISBN, page 16:
- At the racing club's expense, many alterations had been made, including converting the totalisator building into a 40-bed ward.
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Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch totalisator, from English totalisator.
Noun
totalisator (first-person possessive totalisatorku, second-person possessive totalisatormu, third-person possessive totalisatornya)
- totalisator.
- (by extension) gambling.
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- “totalisator” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.