hazard
Use Hazard in a sentence
ərd noun
1.
an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
2.
something causing unavoidable danger, peril, risk, or difficulty: the many hazards of the big city.
3.
the absence or lack of predictability; chance; uncertainty: There is an element of hazard in the execution of the most painstaking plans.
4.
Golf. a bunker, sand trap, or the like, constituting an obstacle.
5.
the uncertainty of the result in throwing a die.
verb (used with object)
9.
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.
10.
to put to the risk of being lost; expose to risk: In making the investment, he hazarded all his savings.
11.
to take or run the risk of (a misfortune, penalty, etc.): Thieves hazard arrest.
12.
to venture upon (anything of doubtful issue): to hazard a dangerous encounter.
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at hazard, at risk; at stake; subject to chance: His reputation was at hazard in his new ventures.
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hazard (ˈhæzəd) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | exposure or vulnerability to injury, loss, evil, etc |
| 2. | at hazard at risk; in danger |
| 3. | a thing likely to cause injury, etc |
| 4. | golf an obstacle such as a bunker, a road, rough, water, etc |
| 5. | chance; accident (esp in the phrase by hazard) |
| 6. | a gambling game played with two dice |
| 7. | real tennis |
| a. the receiver's side of the court | |
| b. one of the winning openings | |
| 8. | billiards a scoring stroke made either when a ball other than the striker's is pocketed (winning hazard) or the striker's cue ball itself (losing hazard) |
| —vb | |
| 9. | to chance or risk |
| 10. | to venture (an opinion, guess, etc) |
| 11. | to expose to danger |
| [C13: from Old French hasard, from Arabic az-zahr the die] | |
| 'hazardable | |
| —adj | |
| 'hazard-free | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
hazard
1167, from O.Fr. hasard "game of chance played with dice," possibly from Sp. azar "an unfortunate card or throw at dice," which is said to be from Arabic az-zahr (for al-zahr) "the die." But this is doubtful because of the absence of zahr in classical Arabic dictionaries. Klein suggests Arabic yasara
"he played at dice;" Arabic -s- regularly becomes Sp. -z-. The -d was added in Fr. in confusion with the native suffix -ard. Sense of "chance of loss or harm, risk," first recorded 1548; the verb sense of "put something at stake in a game of chance" is from 1530. Hazardous in the sense of "perilous" is from 1618.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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hazard
dicedice game dating at least to the 13th century and possibly of Arabic origin: the word hazard derives from the Arabic al-zahr ("die"). It was immensely popular in medieval Europe and was played for high stakes in English gambling rooms. The name of the popular American dice game of craps derives from the nickname "crabs" for the throws 1-1 and 1-2 in hazard. The modern rules of craps also grew out of the old English game
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Example sentences
And fine calculations about moral hazard are less pressing when investors are fleeing risk.
Furthermore, boats detected at different times in the hazard area resulted in additional unprogrammed holds.
If your workplace has other ways or approaches for identifying hazards, they can be included in your hazard map.
For years, sea kayakers viewed rough water as a hazard to be prepared for, but avoided.
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