"venture" Definition

Definitions for the word "venture" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
An event that is not, or can not be, foreseen; an accident; chance; hap; contingency; luck.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
The thing put to hazard; a stake; a risk; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. i.
To hazard one's self; to have the courage or presumption to do, undertake, or say something; to dare.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. i.
To make a venture; to run a hazard or risk; to take the chances.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
To expose to hazard; to risk; to hazard; as, to venture one's person in a balloon.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. t.
To put or send on a venture or chance; as, to venture a horse to the West Indies.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. t.
To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
1 risky undertaking. 2 commercial speculation. v. (-ring) 1 dare; not be afraid. 2 dare to go, make, or put forward (venture out; venture an opinion). 3 a expose to risk; stake. B take risks. [from *adventure]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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