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Noun: Raffles
  1. British colonial administrator who founded Singapore (1781-1826)
    - Sir Thomas Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles
Noun: raffle  ra-ful
  1. A lottery in which the prizes are goods rather than money
Verb: raffle  ra-ful
  1. Dispose of in a lottery
    "We raffled off a trip to the Bahamas";
    - raffle off

Type of: administrator, drawing, executive, gift, give, lottery, present

Encyclopedia: Raffles, Thomas Stamford

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