
bookmaker
Sign in to saveAlso known as bookie, turf accountant
right|thumb|200px|Bookmakers on a Greyhound racing|greyhound race course, [[Reading, Berkshire]]
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- profession
- Subclass of
- juridical person
- Image
- Bookmakers.jpg
- Field of occupation
- football pool
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- OpenStreetMap tag
- shop=bookmaker
- female form of label
- букмекерка
- Commons category
- Bookmakers
- topic's main category
- Category:Bookmakers
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- History
- Range of events
- Operational procedures
- Gambling industry by country
- United Kingdom
- Germany
- Canada
- United States
- Australia
- France
- Internet gambling
- Sponsorships
- See also
- References
right|thumb|200px|Bookmakers on a Greyhound racing|greyhound race course, [[Reading, Berkshire]]
A bookmaker, bookie, or turf accountant is an organization or a person that accepts and pays out bets on sporting and other events at agreed-upon odds.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “bookmaker” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.