Meaning

1 senses

  1. A bet in which the bettor must correctly pick the two runners who finish first and second, in the correct order.

    a bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order

Origin

Unadapted borrowing from Latin exactus (literally “precise, acccurate”).

Unadapted borrowing from Latin exactus (literally “precise, acccurate”).

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Forms

plural: exactas
Singularexacta
Pluralexactas

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
correcta
Close in meaning
  • a bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order:perfecta

Word family

1 related words
Derivedreverse exacta

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
exacerbateexactB1exactlyA2exaggerateB2

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