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odds (ädz)

plural noun

  1. Archaic inequalities
  2. Now Rare difference or amount of difference
  3. difference in favor of one side over the other; advantage
  4. an equalizing advantage given or received in betting, based on a given bettor's assumed chance of winning and expressed as a ratio a winning bettor who got odds of 3 to 1 is paid three times as much as he or she bet
odds Idioms

at odds

in disagreement; quarreling

by (all) odds

by far; unquestionably

(the) odds are

the likelihood is

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odds

n.

  1. An advantage

    allowance, edge, benefit, difference, superiority, overlay*, square odds*, place money*, show money*; see also advantage 1.

  2. A probability

    likelihood, favor, superiority, chances; see probability.

at odds

disagreeing, at variance, discordant; see quarreling.


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odds quotes

And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

-Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)

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