winning hazard

winning hazard

noun
See under hazard (def. 7).
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haz·ard

[haz-erd]
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.
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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).
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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.
13.
at hazard, at risk; at stake; subject to chance: His reputation was at hazard in his new ventures.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English hasard < Old French, perhaps < Arabic al-zahr the die

haz·ard·a·ble, adjective
haz·ard·er, noun
haz·ard·less, adjective
pre·haz·ard, adjective
un·haz·ard·ed, adjective
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un·haz·ard·ing, adjective
well-haz·ard·ed, adjective
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1. See danger. 3. accident, fortuity, fortuitousness. 10. stake, endanger, peril, imperil.


1. safety.

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