totalizatorn.
/ˈtəʊtəlʌɪzeɪtə/ A machine or apparatus for registering and showing the total of operations, measurements, etc.; spec. an apparatus for registering and indicating the number of tickets sold to betters on each horse in a race; also, on each greyhound, etc., in a race; also, a system of betting based on the totalizator.
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1879 S. Australian Independ. & Presbyterian Nov. The passing through Parliament of the Totalizator Bill—a measure to legalise a certain form of betting.
1881 Standard 7 Sept. 5/2 ‘Paris mutuals’..would perhaps be better understood by English people under their other appellation of ‘totalisators’, instruments much in vogue upon the race-courses of Australia.
1885 Q. Rev. Oct. 455 A board is exhibited, containing the names of the horses starting. A person who wishes to back a horse pays in a pound, or as many pounds as he likes, to the officer in charge of the totalisator. When the race is over, all the money staked is divided between the backers of the winning horse, less ten per cent, which is the profit of the management.
1890 Times 26 Feb. 5/3 The Lower House of the Reichsrath to-day adopted a resolution in favour of increasing the tax on the totalisator, or pari-mutuel, used on Austrian race-courses, from 3 to 5 per cent.
1910 Encycl. Brit. III. 827/1 On all French racecourses.., a system of betting known as the Pari-Mutuel or Totalizator, is carried on.
1935 Encycl. Sports, Games & Pastimes 321/1 In 1931 and 1932 most of the licensed tracks in England were equipped with the most up-to-date all-electric totalisators; but in the February of 1933, following a High Court decision of December 17, 1932, that a totalisator on a greyhound track constituted a place within the meaning of the Act, these machines ceased to operate.
1975 Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 445/2 Punters betting with a totalisator endeavour to select the dog or dogs they think will either win or obtain a place.
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Totalizator Agency Board n. in Australia and New Zealand, an official organization, with local offices, for off-course betting on horses.
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1950 N.Z. Statutes 1949 496 There shall be a board to be known as the Totalizator Agency Board.
1957 D. Glover Since Then 16 We are equals all in the sight of the Lord And the Totalizator Agency Board.
1957 Weekly News (Auckland) 6 Nov. 48/1 With the virtual extermination of the illegal bookmaker in the Dominion and the establishment of the Totalisator Agency Board as a firm medium for off-course bettors.
1983 Austral. Encycl. (ed. 4) X. 75 In Australia, the Totalizator Agency Boards are the government agencies which control legal off-course betting in the respective States and in the Australian Capital Territory.
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