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noun
1.
an undertaking involving uncertainty as to the outcome, especially a risky or dangerous one: a mountain-climbing venture.
2.
a business enterprise or speculation in which something is risked in the hope of profit; a commercial or other speculation.
3.
the money, ship, cargo, merchandise, or the like, on which risk is taken in a business enterprise or speculation.
4.
Obsolete. hazard or risk.
verb (used with object)
5.
to expose to hazard; risk: to venture one's fortune; to venture one's life.
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to take the risk of; brave the dangers of: to venture a voyage into space.
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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.
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to take the risk of sending.
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Ventures
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verb (used without object)
9.
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
Idiom12.
of or pertaining to an investment or investments in new businesses: a venture fund.
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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
EXPANDfrom 1580s. Venture capital is attested from 1943.
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