raffle

3 definitions • 3 examples

an activity in which people buy tickets with different numbers, some of which are later chosen to win prizes, that is organized in order to make money for a good social purpose:

a raffle ticket/prize

I have never won anything in a raffle.

to offer something as a prize in a raffle:

We are going to raffle off a car for the hospital appeal.

a system of selling numbered tickets and then giving prizes to those people whose numbers are chosen by chance