postcode lotterynoun [ C ]
uk/ˈpəʊst.kəʊd ˌlɒt.ər.i/us/ˈpoʊst.koʊd ˌlɑː.t̬ɚ.i/in the UK, a situation in which the type of medical treatment you can have, the type of government services you receive, etc. depends on which part of the country you live in
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Chance and randomness
- accident
- arbitrary
- as luck would have it idiom
- be the luck of the draw idiom
- casual
- circumstance
- fortuitous
- haphazard
- happen
- happenstance
- harum-scarum
- lottery
- luck into sth
- more by accident than design idiom
- more by luck than judgment idiom
- one in a million idiom
- pot luck
- serendipity
- stochastic
- stumble into sth
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