{
    "term": "bet",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "bet",
            "heSheIt": "bets"
        },
        "pastSimple": "bet",
        "pastParticiple": "bet",
        "ingForm": "betting"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to risk money on a race or an event by trying to predict the result",
            "sensetop": "bet on/against somebody/something doing somethingbet on/against somethingbet something on somethingbet somethingbet somebody something (that)bet somebody (that)bet something (that)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "You have to be over 16 to bet."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I wouldn't bet on them winning the next election.",
                    "contextForm": "bet on/against somebody/something doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Not many people are betting against France retaining their title."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He likes betting on horses and watching table tennis.",
                    "contextForm": "bet on/against something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He bet $2 000 on the final score of the game.",
                    "contextForm": "bet something on something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "You shouldn't praise a gambler for betting his life savings if he wins.",
                    "contextForm": "bet something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She bet me £20 (that) I wouldn't do it.",
                    "contextForm": "bet somebody something (that)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I bet her (that) the Democrats would not win.",
                    "contextForm": "bet somebody (that)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He bet ten dollars (that) he could write a complete story in just six words.",
                    "contextForm": "bet something (that)"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Money"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "used to say that you are almost certain that something is true or that something will happen",
            "sensetop": "bet (that)…bet somebody (that)…",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I bet (that) we’re too late.",
                    "contextForm": "bet (that)…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "You can bet (that) the moment I sit down, the baby will wake up."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm **willing to bet** (that) the analysts will be wrong."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I’ll bet you (that) he knows all about it.",
                    "contextForm": "bet somebody (that)…"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Doubt, guessing and certainty", "Opinion and argument"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to risk everything you have on an investment, a bet, etc.",
            "labels": "(North American English, informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The company bet the farm on the new marketing model, only to find that it wasn’t successful."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "used to show that you can understand what somebody is feeling, describing, etc.",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "‘I nearly died when he told me.’ ‘I bet!’"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "used to tell somebody that you do not believe what they have just said",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "‘I'm going to tell her what I think of her.’ ‘Yeah, I bet!’"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to say that you do not think that something is very likely",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "‘She'll soon get used to the idea.’ ‘I wouldn't bet on it.’"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used instead of ‘yes’ to emphasize that somebody has guessed something correctly or made a good suggestion",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "‘Are you nervous?’ ‘You bet!’"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Doubt, guessing and certainty"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to say that you are certain that something will happen",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "You can bet your bottom dollar that he'll be late."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Doubt, guessing and certainty"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/bet/",
                "audio": "be/bet/bet__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/bets/",
                "audio": "be/bet/bets__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbetɪŋ/",
                "audio": "be/bet/betting__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/bet/",
                "audio": "be/bet/bet__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/bets/",
                "audio": "be/bet/bets__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbetɪŋ/",
                "audio": "be/bet/betting__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent.: perhaps a shortening of the obsolete noun abet ‘abetment’."
}