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  • verb Present participle of lot.

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Examples

  • UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I don ` t think there should be any repercussions for people who don ` t want to evacuate Nancy, but this is now -- remember, this is a different kind of lotting than the individuals that were looting after Katrina because they needed food or water.

    CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2005 2005

  • I confess, however, that I had not anticipated the sheer scale of how MPs and, let us not forget, some Peers have been lotting the public purse for, in most cases, plain and simple personal enrichment, getting the taxpayer to pay their way in life rather than do it themsleves.

    Expenses: The Commons Exocets Itself 2009

  • I confess, however, that I had not anticipated the sheer scale of how MPs and, let us not forget, some Peers have been lotting the public purse for, in most cases, plain and simple personal enrichment, getting the taxpayer to pay their way in life rather than do it themsleves.

    Archive 2009-06-14 2009

  • For example when they recently raised commissions considerably and lowered lotting fees slightly, the way they portrayed what they were doing was contemptuous of the intelligence of sellers, hyping the reduction and calling the steep commission increase on the first $25 of a sale an “adjustment”.

    EBay Tries to Buy a Little More Love From Sellers - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Because of the high cost of grain, transportation and feed-lotting --- outside of a nuclear plant, there are very few things more destructive of the planet than a factory farm.

    Harvey Wasserman: A Green-Powered Trip to Eco-Solartopia 2009

  • Blunders made by the Coalition Provisional Authority -- disbanding the Iraqi army, dissolving the Baath party, failing to stop the lotting -- are not the main problem.

    Jonathan Steele: Why the Democrats Should Use the "Defeat" Word 2008

  • BLITZER: And, Sara, are they still lotting you and the other journalists stay in the vicinity of this Taj Mahal Intercontinental Hotel?

    CNN Transcript Nov 28, 2008 2008

  • Patrick Connor was sipping herbal tea and lotting up his night's takings when Wednesday, his young secretary, told him a woman was outside insisting she wanted to see him.

    faceless Cole, Martina 2001

  • I didn't dare to come over and ask you, but I kept thinking of poor Mother and how she's been 'lotting on earning all that money.

    Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings Annie Hamilton Donnell

  • And he was lotting on going to the exercises in the Town Hall.

    Understood Betsy 1917

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