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Sun 19 May, 2013 08:41 am
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Mike Dunlap of Asheville, N.C., joined millions of other people nationwide who bought tickets in the run-up
to the drawing and plotted what to do with the winnings.
"I'll assure you if I win the lottery I'll quit selling crackers," said Dunlap, a businessman who sells for snack food maker Snyder's-Lance.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/19/powerball-numbers-jackpot-florida/2323733/
@oristarA,
no, it means the announcement of the winning numbers for the lottery...
It means the selection of the winning numbers. In old fashioned lotteries, paper slips containing all the possible winning numbers were placed in a receptacle, such as a box, a device called "tombola", or even a hat, and the required number of winning number slips drawn out by someone. Hence the name "draw". Of course in many cases these days mechanical or electronic methods are used but the word remains in use.
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