1A risky or daring journey or undertaking.

1. 1.1 A business enterprise involving considerable risk.
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Thanks to all who so generously supported the fund-raising venture.
   • One can turn his ideas into profitable ventures with the use of 3D.
   • She started her entrepreneurial venture three years ago, distributing chocolates to her friends and acquaintances.
   • The gimmick is part of the company's latest venture to target the UK's 3.2m students in higher education.
   • Find out how the most successful e-commerce ventures help customers help themselves.
   • Last year, analysts were putting a valuation of e150 million on the business-to-business e-commerce venture.
   • Others say they might invest in an Internet venture and its stock shoots up.
   • Lately, successful joint ventures with foreign partners produce consumer goods.
   • In today's overheated financial markets, euphoric investors are once again happily financing risky ventures.
   • His Honour made a finding that this venture failed very soon after inception in 1990.
   • They simply change employers or pursue entrepreneurial ventures.
   • Wait for clarity and totality before starting a new business venture.
   • After all, the time to get in on an e-commerce venture has come and gone.
   • Life insurance became a profitable commercial venture provided by firms such as the Prudential.
   • The competition was more like those run by government agencies or major foundations than an agile start-up venture.
   • The money was not paid under the terms of the joint venture agreement.
   • The goals of Bard's collaborative ventures were established jointly with our partners abroad.
   • Ms Browning's latest venture involves the launch of an organic fast food truck, called the Flying Pig.
   • He's starting a new business venture here.
   • They're government agencies that use public money to underwrite risky private ventures.

   Synonyms

   enterprise, undertaking, project, scheme, pursuit, operation, endeavour, campaign, activity, act, deed, move, measure, task, exploit, mission, adventure, trial

1Dare to do something or go somewhere that may be dangerous or unpleasant.

1. 1.1 Dare to do or say something that may be considered audacious (often used as a polite expression of hesitation or apology)
   may I venture to add a few comments?

   I ventured to write to her

   with object he ventured the opinion that Putt was now dangerously insane

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Stephen even ventures the possibility of a change of name and even in its remit of building a knowledge economy.
   • And she ventures a few guesses on why it's not happened thus far.
   • Dare I venture to ‘guesstimate’ a not inconsiderable number!
   • We ventured a guess that she wasn't off to moderate a ‘Successful Selling Schemes’ seminar.
   • I'm venturing a guess that most of those people would swap that for having insulting signs written on their bodies any day.
   • Part travel log, part art history primer, it elegantly provides the context for Klett's life's work without venturing much in the way of criticism.
   • I am venturing to write you this email for introducing our company as one of the professional exporters of car audio from China.
   • Without abandoning her earlier assessment of Jeff Tweedy's performance, she ventured a more complex answer.
   • If he were a betting man, he would venture a wager that she was uncomfortable with the position she was now in where it came to him.
   • Accountants on the other hand stick to the letter of the detail, rarely venturing even informed opinions.
   • He ventures the notion of ‘publicisation’ to rival the Tories' privatisation project.
   • Again, no one has ventured a coherent explanation of this theory, let alone bothered to hint at what the evidence for it might be.
   • She ventures a few speculations about the woman with whom he likely had a long relationship.
   • Apparently not, or so I was told by my wife before I had even ventured to express an opinion or a comment on the subject.
   • Ever noticed how a woman is ignored if she dares to venture an opinion on the weekend's football game?
   • Which is why I am venturing to write this column on last week's encounter in Ahmedabad.
   • I remember overhearing them speaking French to one another and venturing a ‘bonjour.’
   • I ventured that science, research and technology are the only things which will get us out of the hole we're very likely digging even now.
   • We ventured a guess that it was a ‘long shot’ at the time but our loyal readers have come to the rescue yet again.
   • Occasionally, Ducros - who is French - quietly ventures a suggestion about some nuance of diction.

   Synonyms

   put forward, volunteer, advance, submit, proffer, offer, air, bring up, suggest, propound, posit, propose, moot, ventilate, table, broach, lodge, introduce, put up, present

   dare, make so bold as, be so bold as, presume, have the temerity, have the effrontery, have the audacity, have the nerve, be brave enough, have the courage, go so far as
2. 1.2with object Expose (something) to the risk of loss.
   his fortune is ventured in an expedition over which he has no control

   Example sentencesExamples

   • For an investment bank expert in venture capital, nothing has been ventured here and nothing gained.
   • Without venturing a judgment on Israel's method of retaliation, Mr Rumsfeld suggested the US would take stern measures under similar circumstances.
   • The general point that emerges from these thought experiments is that much may be ventured, at great risk, for very small gains.
   • Kerry compounded the problem by venturing no information about his public career in the Senate for the past two decades.
   • If a man is venturing his own money, this is the only risk which is relevant.
   • No one would venture such capital without some chance of generating a return on investment.

   Synonyms

   bet, wager, gamble, stake, hazard, risk, chance