side bet
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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A bet on some aspect of a game or competition that is not the main bet of the game or the prize of the competition.
— The fight lasted ten minutes and along with the championship of New Jersey, Banks won a side bet of $50.
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An investment or risk undertaken by a company that is not part of its core business.
— While this may reflect the relative low-key presence of small business representatives in Washington, I think it more reflects the basic prejudice of the small business case by the indifference and inattention of policy-makers to what they regard as a side-bet or peripheral issue regarding small business.
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An investment of time, money, or resources that reinforces one's commitment to a course of action.
— It is assumed in these studies, for instance , that : (1) age "is" a side bet because the longer an employee is in an organization the more benefits he has "built up" and that (2) the nature or the correlation between age and desire to stay in the organization is used as confirming or disconfirming evidence of the side bet stature of the age variable.
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