venturenoun [ C ]
uk/ˈven.tʃər/us/ˈven.tʃɚ/C2 a new activity, usually in business, that involves risk or uncertainty:
She advised us to look abroad for more lucrative business ventures.
There are many joint ventures between American and Japanese companies.
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- The project was a joint venture between the two schools .
- With debts of $4 million and a monthly payroll of $1.2 million, the venture is clearly heading for trouble.
- "How's your new venture going?" "It's looking quite promising."
- The office block was built as a speculative venture.
- They announced the start of a new commercial venture.
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Success & failure in business
- administration
- axe
- bankrupt
- bankruptcy
- branch
- branch out
- collapse
- establish
- fold
- foreclose
- joint venture
- liquidate
- liquidator
- locate
- moribund
- official receiver
- organic growth
- receivership
- shut (sth) down
- spin
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ventureverb [ I usually + adv/prep, T ]
uk/ˈven.tʃər/us/ˈven.tʃɚ/formalC2 to risk going somewhere or doing something that might be dangerous or unpleasant, or to risk saying something that might be criticized:
She rarely ventured outside, except when she went to stock up on groceries.
As we set off into the forest, we felt as though we were venturing (forth) into the unknown.
She tentatively ventured the opinion that the project would be too expensive to complete, but the boss ignored her.
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- In this region women seldom venture out of purdah.
- She ventured the opinion that they should be more polite.
- When we ventured outside, the sun was shining.
- We ventured into the local town.
- I ventured to suggest that we should stop for the night.
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Taking risks
- a drowning man will clutch at a straw idiom
- a leap in the dark idiom
- adventurer
- ante
- be skating on thin ice idiom
- dare
- expose
- go for broke idiom
- have/put your head on the block idiom
- hazard
- imperil
- jeopardize
- lay
- neck
- risk
- run the risk of doing sth idiom
- sail close to the wind idiom
- skate
- stick (sth) out
- stick your neck out idiom
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Idiom(s)
nothing ventured, nothing gained
Phrasal verb(s)
venture on/upon sth