No. 11,642 in Russian
жеребьевка
"Жеребьевка" means "drawing lots" or "lottery" to determine something randomly.
In a sentence
Сегодня была жеребьевка команде для участия в соревнованиях.
Today, the drawing of lots was conducted to assign teams for participation in the competition.
The word 'жеребьевка' is used to signify the process of drawing lots or selecting teams randomly.
Жеребьевка определила наш порядок выступления.
The drawing of lots determined our order of performance.
Here, 'жеребьевка' represents the action of allocating sequences or roles through a random selection process.
На школьной жеребьевке мне досталась роль ведущего.
During the school drawing of lots, I was assigned the role of host.
In this sentence, 'жеребьевка' denotes an event where roles are assigned randomly, often as part of an organized activity.
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