| See under hazard (def. 7). |
[haz-erd] 
| 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). |
| 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. |
