betting odds

1. 1.

   the ratio by which one better's wager is greater than that of another

   “he offered odds of two to one”

   Synonymsodds

   Broaderratio

Questions about betting odds

What does betting odds mean?

betting odds means "the ratio by which one better's wager is greater than that of another".

What is another word for betting odds?

Close synonyms include odds. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is betting odds a common word?

betting odds is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.