totalisator

English

Noun

totalisator (plural totalisators)

1. (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.

Alternative forms

• totalizator

Synonyms

• tote board

Translations

Translations

• Indonesian: totalisator (id), toto (id)
• Maori: mīhini petipeti

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch totalisator, from English totalisator.

Noun

totalisator (first-person possessive totalisatorku, second-person possessive totalisatormu, third-person possessive totalisatornya)

1. totalisator.
2. (by extension) gambling.

Synonyms

• toto

Further reading

• “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.