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ventured

[ven-cher]

noun

an undertaking involving uncertainty as to the outcome, especially a risky or dangerous one: a mountain-climbing venture.

a business enterprise or speculation in which something is risked in the hope of profit; a commercial or other speculation.

the money, ship, cargo, merchandise, or the like, on which risk is taken in a business enterprise or speculation.

Obsolete. hazard or risk.

verb (used with object)

to expose to hazard; risk: to venture one's fortune; to venture one's life.

to take the risk of; brave the dangers of: to venture a voyage into space.

to undertake to express, as when opposition or resistance appears likely to follow; be bold enough; dare: I venture to say that you are behaving foolishly.

to take the risk of sending.

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verb (used without object)

to make or embark upon a venture; dare to go: He ventured deep into the jungle.

10.

to take a risk; dare; presume: to venture on an ambitious program of reform.

11.

to invest venture capital.

adjective

12.

of or pertaining to an investment or investments in new businesses: a venture fund.

Idiom

13.

at a venture, according to chance; at random: A successor was chosen at a venture.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English, aphetic variant of aventure adventure

Related forms

ven·tur·er, noun

pre·ven·ture, noun, verb, -tured, -tur·ing.

un·ven·tured, adjective

Synonyms
5. endanger, imperil, jeopardize. 10. See dare.

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Example Sentences

Under the threatening skies yesterday, many who ventured out chose meandering through the museums over strolling in the park.

Gora ventured into an emotionally charged national issue when she talked about health-care reform.

But he did not disclose when it would end, and officials ventured a variety of dates.

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Under the threatening skies yesterday, many who ventured out chose meandering through the museums over strolling in the park.

Gora ventured into an emotionally charged national issue when she talked about health-care reform.

But he did not disclose when it would end, and officials ventured a variety of dates.

Presumably, the bird only ventured onto solid ground to breed and lay eggs.

The shuttles hardly ventured into unexplored territory.

But they say they are going after an even bigger market: the expensive branding campaigns that so far have barely ventured online.

Even the smallest of nonprofits ventured into the world of high finance.

Aitken and his cohorts have concentrated on domestic research, other geographers have ventured abroad.

Some of the refugees say that they have ventured north to check on their houses but did not feel safe enough to stay.

As a climber, it was great to stretch out in this exotic locale where few rock climbers have ever ventured.

She ventured into the third dimension to produce graphs that map the contours of plants.

Anyone who has ventured onto a playground knows the scene.

The unit appears to have ventured into intelligence gathering, which is beyond its mandate.

Elsewhere in the disaster zone, people ventured cautiously back to homes to retrieve belongings.

We ventured outdoors on a particularly wet and blustery day with this green, mighty-morphing power jacket.

Using iPhones as flashlights, the guests ventured down to the lake, drank wine in the moonlight and swam out to a floating dock.

At the dawn of the next day, however, people ventured back.

Only a dozen or so people had ventured into the air.

He is unable to read himself, but a confidential friend who ventured into the saloon soon afterward read it for him.

But no one openly ventured to push for a leadership challenge to the prime minister.

Prior to that, nobody ventured on their land because of fear of getting killed.

Grahek, who works for a government agency he did not want to specify, ventured a guess.

Few have ventured much outside of their own national borders.

Onwas himself, though he's scarcely ventured beyond the periphery of the bush, senses that profound changes are coming.

It was the stars that first helped sailors navigate as they ventured out at night in the world's earliest leaky boats.

There is no guarantee that the chicken ever ventured out of the enclosure.

The former astronaut ventured more than seven million miles on his two trips into space, so the.

Those who ventured outside moved as if they were swimming in.

The darling of the radical right ventured into science journalism the other.

Russell ventured the opinion that the dominant characteristic of our modern poetry is the genuineness of its impure and.

Apparently there are some teens and young adults who have ventured into furryland for umpleasure and companionship.

They have ventured into the drowsy glades of badly managed companies.

If our vehicles or porpoises ventured too close, they'd be fried.

And he's since ventured into the diss track genre on the aforementioned.

Theatergoers who ventured there found all its walls covered with white paper and holiday ornaments hanging in the lobby.

Almost every single state that ventured into business went bankrupt.

Not even nuclear-powered icebreakers have ventured into the region.

In recent years the group has embraced economic development issues and ventured into politics.

Humans have been weaving commercial and cultural connections since before the first camel caravan ventured afield.

Trudeau has ventured into other media several times in the past, with mixed results.

In one of the island's apartment buildings there's a girl who hasn't ventured out in years.

Terry ventured to remote rural outposts and blighted urban neighborhoods to bring health care to communities deeply in need.

They burned buildings and attacked all the colored men that ventured on the streets.

Grado's singing and an attractive richness when he ventured to sing out.

Demonstrators hurled stones at the police and attacked taxis and buses that ventured onto the streets.

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Word Origin & History

venture

mid-15c., "to risk the loss" (of something), shortened form of aventure, itself a form of adventure. General sense of "to dare, to presume" is recorded from 1550s. Noun sense of "risky undertaking" first recorded 1560s; meaning "enterprise of a business nature" is recorded

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from 1580s. Venture capital is attested from 1943.

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