postcode lottery
noun [S] UK SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITYDefinition
› 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.
(Definition of postcode lottery noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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