unbet

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ bet

Adjective[edit]

unbet (not comparable)

  1. (rare) On which a bet has not been placed.
    • 1966, Tom Ainslie, The Compleat Horseplayer, page 160:
      […] after you have tasted the sweets of victory, you will begin to share my view that it is fun just to sit and watch a race on which you have not bet. It is fun even when the unbet race is won by a horse you rejected at the paddock.
    • 2008, Charles R. Plott, Vernon L. Smith, Handbook of Experimental Economics Results, volume 1, page 721:
      A temporary $500 bet is made on one horse, chosen at random by flipping a coin, and movements in betting on that horse and on the unbet (control) horse were recorded.
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