Definition of hazard

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Hazard (n.) Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life..

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Speculate :: Speculate (v. i.) To purchase with the expectation of a contingent advance in value, and a consequent sale at a profit; -- often, in a somewhat depreciative sense, of unsound or hazardous transactions; as, to speculate in coffee, in sugar, or in bank stock..
Hazardry :: Hazardry (n.) Rashness; temerity.
Dangerous :: Dangerous (a.) Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.
Equilibrist :: Equilibrist (n.) One who balances himself in unnatural positions and hazardous movements; a balancer.
Hazard :: Hazard (n.) Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard)..
Hazard :: Hazard (n.) To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk.
Plunge :: Plunge (n.) Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
Wager :: Wager (v. t.) Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge..
Insecurity :: Insecurity (n.) The condition or quality of being insecure; want of safety; danger; hazard; as, the insecurity of a building liable to fire; insecurity of a debt..
Venture :: Venture (v. t.) To expose to hazard; to risk; to hazard; as, to venture one's person in a balloon..
Wagering :: Wagering (a.) Hazarding; pertaining to the act of one who wagers.
Random :: Random (a.) Going at random or by chance; done or made at hazard, or without settled direction, aim, or purpose; hazarded without previous calculation; left to chance; haphazard; as, a random guess..
Hazarding :: Hazarding (p. pr. & vb. /) of Hazar.
Chanceful :: Chanceful (a.) Hazardous.
Adventure :: Adventure (n.) A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
Hazard :: Hazard (n.) Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming..
Secure :: Secure (v. t.) To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; to insure; -- frequently with against or from, rarely with of; as, to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage..
Adventurous :: Adventurous (n.) Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons.
Safeness :: Safeness (n.) The quality or state of being safe; freedom from hazard, danger, harm, or loss; safety; security; as the safeness of an experiment, of a journey, or of a possession..
Hazardable :: Hazardable (a.) Such as can be hazarded or risked.
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