odds

Definition:
1. The probability of a specified outcome.
2. The ratio by which one better's wager is greater than that of another.

Use 'odds' in a sentence:

• 1. I've got a few odds and ends to do before leaving.
• 2. And yet in many ways the two dreams ended up at odds with each other.
• 3. Some women do manage to achieve business success against all odds.
• 4. An adviser said there was no reason why the two countries should remain at odds.
• 5. At least, she says, they can maximize the odds of success.
• 6. They can maximize the odds of success.
• 7. Of the five companies bidding for the contract, Wall Street analysts have made Lockheed the odds-on favourite.
• 8. Odds bobs, hammer and tongs I'm burning.
• 9. I'll lay odds that Dean is at your office right now.
• 10. Odds my life, a strange boon!
• 11. What are the odds of finding a parking space right outside the door?
• 12. The odds are that she'll win.
• 13. It's possible to be bedfellows with someone on one issue, and at odds with them on another.
• 14. The odds are that you are going to fail.
• 15. He's always at odds with his father over politics.
• 16. These findings are at odds with what is going on in the rest of the country.
• 17. It's odds-on that he'll be late.
• 18. He reckons the odds are against the plan going ahead.
• 19. We are offering odds of 6-1 on the fight ending in a knockout.
• 20. That's completely at odds with how I feel today.
• 21. His troops will only engage in a ground battle when all the odds are in their favour.
• 22. He was at odds with his Prime Minister.
• 23. Even so, the odds favour marriage.
• 24. Studies of innovation come to the same conclusion: You can't engineer innovation, but you can increase the odds of it occurring.
• 25. The odds are heavily against him.
• 26. Against all (the) odds , he made a full recovery.
• 27. What are the odds he won't turn up?
• 28. She spent the day sorting through a box full of odds and ends.
• 29. He sweeps up and does a few odds and ends.
• 30. Unemployed workers face difficult odds.
• 31. It was odds-on that there was no killer.
• 32. The profit motive is inherently at odds with principles of fairness and equity.
• 33. Finally, late in life and against considerable odds, she became a nun.
• 34. Even if the odds are stacked against you, marriage can more than compensate.
• 35. The odds are very much in our favour.
• 36. The odds are stacked against civilians getting a fair trial.
• 37. I'm sorry. I just feel as if the odds are stacked up against me.
• 38. He was at odds with the boss.
• 39. The troops will only engage in a ground battle when all the odds are in their favour.
• 40. Global ecological efforts can easily be at odds with local ecologies.
• 41. He reckoned the odds are against the scheme going ahead.
• 42. Many collectors are willing to pay over the odds for early examples of his work.
• 43. It makes no odds to me whether you go or stay.
• 44. What were the odds against?
• 45. Against all odds, he made a full recovery.
• 46. I'll lay odds on him getting the job.
• 47. Arazi is odds-on to win the Kentucky Derby.
• 48. She put in some clothes, odds and ends, and make-up.
• 49. They secured a victory in the face of overwhelming odds.
• 50. The baby boy defied all the odds and survived.
• 51. The odds against him surviving are incredible.