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/ɑdz/ · noun
The ratio of the probability of an event happening to that of it not happening..
I'd say the odds are strongly in favor of the sun rising tomorrow morning.
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I looked at the odds given by all bookmakers.
She beat me with knight odds but lost with rook odds.
The grandmaster gave his opponents significant time odds, of one minute versus ten minutes.
The resulting match of fourteen games was won by Mr. Maurian, who had scored all the Knight-odds parties and the majority of the even-term ones!
Nowadays, giving material odds in this way is rather rare, but the advent of the chess clock has made it possible for strong players to give time odds — taking one or two minutes for all their moves, for example, and allowing their opponents five minutes or more.
Harry Golombek, who had returned from Argentina with the British chess team but spent two years in the infantry before joining B.P., occasionally played chess with Turing, giving Queen odds in order to make the game more equal.
Use odds when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Odds means The ratio of the probability of an event happening to that of it not happening..
Common synonyms include likelihood, likeliness.
Possible antonyms include unlikelihood, unlikeliness.
I'd say the odds are strongly in favor of the sun rising tomorrow morning.
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