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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024los′ing haz′ard. - GamesSee under hazard (def. 8).
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024haz•ard /ˈhæzɚd/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- something causing danger, peril, risk, or difficulty:the many hazards of living in the big city.
- Sporta bunker, sand trap, or the like that is an obstacle on a golf course.
v. [~ + object] - to put forward;
venture:I'd hazard a guess that the loss is in the millions. - to expose to risk:In making the investment he hazarded all his savings.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024haz•ard (haz′ərd),USA pronunciation n. - an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable:The job was full of hazards.
- something causing unavoidable danger, peril, risk, or difficulty:the many hazards of the big city.
- the absence or lack of predictability;
chance;
uncertainty:There is an element of hazard in the execution of the most painstaking plans. - Sport[Golf.]a bunker, sand trap, or the like, constituting an obstacle.
- the uncertainty of the result in throwing a die.
- Gamesa game played with two dice, an earlier and more complicated form of craps.
- Sport[Court Tennis.]any of the winning openings.
- Games(in English billiards) a stroke by which the player pockets the object ball (winning hazard) or his or her own ball after contact with another ball (losing hazard).
- Idioms at hazard, at risk;
at stake;
subject to chance:His reputation was at hazard in his new ventures.
v.t. - to offer (a statement, conjecture, etc.) with the possibility of facing criticism, disapproval, failure, or the like;
venture:He hazarded a guess, with trepidation, as to her motives in writing the article. - to put to the risk of being lost;
expose to risk:In making the investment, he hazarded all his savings. - to take or run the risk of (a misfortune, penalty, etc.):Thieves hazard arrest.
- to venture upon (anything of doubtful issue):to hazard a dangerous encounter.
- Arabic al-zahr the die
- Old French, perh.
- Middle English hasard 1250–1300
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged See danger.
- 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged accident, fortuity, fortuitousness.
- 11.See corresponding entry in Unabridged stake, endanger, peril, imperil.
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged safety.
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