hazard or risk of or exposure to loss, harm, death, or injury: For a moment his life was in jeopardy.
peril or danger: The spy was in constant jeopardy of being discovered.
Law. the danger or hazard of being found guilty, and of consequent punishment, undergone by criminal defendants on trial.
Origin of jeopardy
1200–50; Middle English j(e)uparti, joupardi(e), j(e)upardi(e) <Anglo-French, Old French: literally, divided game or play, hence, uncertain chance, problem (in chess or love), equivalent to j(e)u play, game (<Latin jocusjoke) + parti, past participle of partir to divide; see party
Meanwhile, fears persist with Ginsburg gone that LGBTQ victories previously won at the Supreme Court will be in jeopardy.
Ginsburg’s death leaves LGBTQ rights on Supreme Court vulnerable to religious claims|Chris Johnson|September 23, 2020|Washington Blade
Newark Beth Israel’s one-year survival rate for heart transplants had dipped, and if Young were to die too soon, the program’s standing and even its own survival might be in jeopardy.
ProPublica Investigation on Newark Hospital Transplant Team Wins Deadline Club Award|by ProPublica|September 15, 2020|ProPublica
She’d had a hard year, charged by troopers with damaging a vehicle in a case that was later dismissed but that had placed her law enforcement career in jeopardy.
The Woman Propositioned by Alaska’s Former Lieutenant Governor Tells Her Story for the First Time|by Kyle Hopkins and Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News|September 10, 2020|ProPublica
The Public Advocates Office suspects if SDG&E doesn’t submit justification, it could put approval of its safety certificate in jeopardy.
Watchdog Warns: SDG&E’s Tree-Trimming Plan Could Worsen Wildfires|MacKenzie Elmer|August 24, 2020|Voice of San Diego
Dominguez-Bello’s research collections have been in jeopardy many times, from political unrest when her lab was based in Venezuela to Hurricane Sandy after she’d moved her lab to New York University.
Scientists want to build a Noah’s Ark for the human microbiome|Carolyn Beans|June 11, 2020|Science News
I wish there were nothing for me to do but to take my Jeopardy!
From Socially Isolated Nerd to Jeopardy! Bad Boy: A Thank You Note|Arthur Chu|November 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In the semifinals, she was in a peculiar position for someone of Jeopardy!
Jeopardy! Champion Julia Collins’s Brain Feels Like Mush|Sujay Kumar|November 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The processing errors of her mind manifested in a few debilitating ways: Her wagers, written with Jeopardy!
Jeopardy! Champion Julia Collins’s Brain Feels Like Mush|Sujay Kumar|November 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They banter with Alex Trebek and tell stories of life after Jeopardy!
Jeopardy! Champion Julia Collins’s Brain Feels Like Mush|Sujay Kumar|November 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The one sticking point was, of course, that my D-list viral celebrity as a Jeopardy!
Men Without a Country: Mike Brown, Trayvon Martin, My Father and Me|Arthur Chu|August 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
His extravagance, of course, required increased taxation, and his capricious cruelty put every mans life in jeopardy.
Under Csars' Shadow|Henry Francis Colby
Two men had perished in it; and two others had been so severely wounded as to put their lives in jeopardy.
Within an Inch of His Life|Emile Gaboriau
Our lives were in jeopardy, and they came very near burning down the premises.
By Canoe and Dog-Train|Egerton Ryerson Young
By the second clause his property would be placed in jeopardy to protect the carelessness or incompetence of others, aliens all.
El Diablo|Brayton Norton
Johnson says of jeopardy that it is a word not now in use; which certainly is not any longer true.
English Past and Present|Richard Chevenix Trench
British Dictionary definitions for jeopardy
jeopardy
/ (ˈdʒɛpədɪ) /
noun(usually preceded by in)
danger of injury, loss, death, etc; risk; peril; hazardhis health was in jeopardy
lawdanger of being convicted and punished for a criminal offenceSee also double jeopardy
Word Origin for jeopardy
C14: from Old French jeu parti, literally: divided game, hence uncertain issue, from jeu game, from Latin jocus joke, game + partir to divide, from Latin partīrī
peril, precariousness, accident, risk, liability, insecurity, vulnerability, hazard, endangerment, chance, venture, exposure, out on a limb, on the line, on the spot