chance
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(noun) a risk involving danger; "you take a chance when you let her drive" |
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Related Words: danger, peril, risk |
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(verb) be the case by chance; "I chanced to meet my old friend in the street" |
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Related Words: come about, go on, hap, happen, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place |
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(verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; "When you buy these stocks you are gambling" |
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Synonyms: adventure, gamble, hazard, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
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Related Words: assay, attempt, essay, luck it, luck through, seek, try |
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(noun) a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; "what is the probability of rain?"; "we have a good chance of winning" |
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Synonyms: probability |
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Related Words: joint probability, measure, measurement |
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(noun) a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances; "the holiday gave us the opportunity to visit Washington"; "now is your chance" |
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Synonyms: opportunity |
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Related Words: audience, clean slate, crack, day, fresh start, hearing, hunting ground, occasion, opening, possibility, possibleness, room, say, shot, street, tabula rasa, throw |
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(verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day" |
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Synonyms: bump, encounter, find, happen, hit |
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(satellite adjective) occurring or appearing or singled out by chance; "their accidental meeting led to a renewal of their friendship"; "seek help from casual passers-by"; "a casual meeting"; "a chance occurrence" |
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Synonyms: accidental, casual |
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(noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another; "bad luck caused his downfall"; "it was a chance meeting" |
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Synonyms: fortune, hazard, luck |
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Related Words: bad luck, even chance, mischance, mishap, phenomenon, toss-up |
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