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By All Odds

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Adverb

1. by all odds, decidedly, definitely, emphatically, in spades, unquestionably

without question and beyond doubt

Example Sentences:
'it was decidedly too expensive'
'she told him off in spades'
'by all odds they should win'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

By All Odds

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by far; unquestionably

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

By All Odds

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pl.n.
1. A certain number of points given beforehand to a weaker side in a contest to equalize the chances of all participants.
2.
a. The ratio of the probability of an event's occurring to the probability of its not occurring.
b. The likelihood of the occurrence of one thing rather than the occurrence of another thing, as in a contest: The odds are that she will get the nomination on the first ballot.
3. Games A ratio expressing the amount by which the stake of one bettor differs from that of an opposing bettor.
4. An amount or degree by which one thing exceeds or falls short of another: won the contest by considerable odds.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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