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haz⋅ard

  [haz-erd]
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–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.
6. a game played with two dice, an earlier and more complicated form of craps.
7. Court Tennis. any of the winning openings.
8. (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).
–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.
—Idiom
13. at hazard, at risk; at stake; subject to chance: His reputation was at hazard in his new ventures.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME hasard < OF, perh. < Ar al-zahr the die

Related forms:
haz⋅ard⋅a⋅ble, adjective
haz⋅ard⋅er, noun
haz⋅ard⋅less, adjective

Synonyms:
1. See danger. 3. accident, fortuity, fortuitousness. 10. stake, endanger, peril, imperil.

Antonyms:
1. safety.
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haz·ard   (hāz'ərd)   
n.  

  1. A chance; an accident.

  2. A chance of being injured or harmed; danger: Space travel is full of hazards.

  3. A possible source of danger: a fire hazard.

  4. Games A dice game similar to craps.

  5. Sports An obstacle, such as a sand trap, found on a golf course.

tr.v.   haz·ard·ed, haz·ard·ing, haz·ards

  1. To expose to danger or harm. See Synonyms at endanger.

  2. To venture (something); dare: hazard a guess.


[Middle English hasard, dice game, from Old French, possibly from Old Spanish azar, possibly from Arabic az-zahr, the gaming die : al-, the + zahr, gaming die.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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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 Ar. yasara "he played at dice;" Ar. -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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: haz·ard
Pronunciation: 'ha-z&rd
Function: noun
: a condition that tends to create or increase the possibility of loss —used esp. in insurance law
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Encyclopedia

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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