unbet
English
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- (rare) On which a bet has not been placed.
- 1966, Tom Ainslie, The Compleat Horseplayer, page 160:
- […] after you have tasted the sweets of victory, you will begin to share my view that it is fun just to sit and watch a race on which you have not bet. It is fun even when the unbet race is won by a horse you rejected at the paddock.
- 2008, Charles R. Plott, Vernon L. Smith, Handbook of Experimental Economics Results, volume 1, page 721:
- A temporary $500 bet is made on one horse, chosen at random by flipping a coin, and movements in betting on that horse and on the unbet (control) horse were recorded.