handicapper

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun someone who sets the betting odds based on calculations of the outcome of a contest (especially a horse race)

From handicap + -er.

Thither of the wall the quartermile flat handicappers, M. C. Green, H. Shrift, T. M. Patey, C. Scaife, J. — Ulysses, James Joyce
They filled eight thousand rupee lotteries on the Broken Link Handicap, and the account in the Pioneer said that “favoritism was divided.” In plain English, the various contingents were wild on their respective horses; for the Handicappers had done their work well. — The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition, Rudyard Kipling

odds-maker

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