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postcode lottery
noun[ 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（英国）地域性公共服务差异（人们能获得的医疗类型、所享受的政府服务类型等均与其居住地区有关）
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Chance and randomness
accident
accident of birth
aleatory
arbitrarily
arbitrariness
coincidence
crapshoot
even money
fluke
fluky
long shot
luck
luck into something
more by accident than designidiom
more by luck than judgmentidiom
randomness
serendipitous
serendipitously
sortition
stumble into something
postcode lottery | Business English
postcode lottery
noun[ S ]
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY UKukus
a situation in which the level of the quality of health care, education, etc. that people receive is different in different areas of the UK:
Mobile MRI scanning machines may help end the postcode lottery.
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