winner
Meaning of winner in English
winner
noun [ C ]
uk /ˈwɪn.ər/ us /ˈwɪn.ɚ/
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someone who wins a game, competition, or election:
There’ll be a prize for the winner.
The winner of this match will play Aston Villa in the semifinals.
And to find out who are the lucky winners of our competition, Samantha is going to draw some names out of the bag.
See also
breadwinner
informal
(US also game-winner)
in sport, a goal or point that causes a player or team to win a game:
Neil Eaves scored the winner in the last minute of the match.
informal
something that is extremely successful and popular:
That lemon tart was a winner, wasn’t it?
UK I think they’re onto a winner with this latest product (= it will succeed).
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someone or something that becomes popular, wealthy, or has achieved a lot
successThe new TV series was a wild success.
a roaring successHer third album was a roaring success and went platinum.
hitDinner was a hit with the kids.
triumphThe court verdict was a triumph for all abuse victims.
winWhat can we do to get a win out of this situation?
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(Definition of winner from the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
winner | American Dictionary
winner
noun [ C ]
us /ˈwɪn·ər/
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infml In sports, a winner is also a goal or point that causes a person or a side to win a game:
Eaves scored the winner in the final seconds of the game.
infml A winner is also something that is extremely successful and popular:
That chocolate cake was a winner.
(Definition of winner from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
winner | Business English
winner
noun [ C ]
uk /ˈwɪnər/ us
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a person or company that is successful in a particular situation such as a competition, a market, or an election:
The winner will receive a digital camera.
The clear winners in this ecommerce-friendly budget are small businesses.
something that is very successful and popular:
I think we’re onto a winner with this product.
Analysts at London’s smaller banks successfully picked the stock market’s winners and losers.
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loser
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breadwinner
(Definition of winner from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of winner
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We can take this a bit farther: if reforms are embraced by losers and winners alike why are electoral institutions so stable?
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Plan conversions produce potential winners and losers compared to expectations of benefits under the old plan.
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A possible system-wide solution would involve a negotiated or ‘market-like exchange’, whereby the winners compensate the losers.
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However, the tick feeding aggregation creates not only mutual winners, but also some losers (discussed above).
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She stresses how much she wants to reject the thinking behind terms such as ‘ winners and losers, centers and margins, progress and regress ‘ (p. 5).
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As a whole, the rural population appears to have considered that there were both winners and losers following movement to towns.
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