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venture

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits; "he knew the stock was a speculation when he bought it" [syn: speculation ] a commercial undertaking that risks a loss ...

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "fortune, chance," shortening of aventure (n.), a variant of adventure (n.); also from Anglo-French venture . Sense of "risky undertaking" first recorded 1560s; meaning "enterprise of a business nature" is recorded from 1580s. Venture capital is ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Venture \Ven"ture\, v. t. To expose to hazard; to risk; to hazard; as, to venture one's person in a balloon. I am afraid; and yet I'll venture it. --Shak. To put or send on a venture or chance; as, to venture a horse to the West Indies. To confide ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES venture capital COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE commercial ▪ After dabbling in commercial ventures from within Titan for nearly four years, the company took a bold new step. ▪ These commercial ventures led to ...

Usage examples of venture.

At last, his breathing became: quick and oppressed, and, after listening to it for some minutes with increasing affright, Ruth ventured to awaken him.

Cowper ventured to praise the great allegorist, but did not venture to name him.

The time for the admission of the new Member of the Institute arrived, but in his discourse, copies of which were circulated in Paris, he had ventured to allude to the death of Louis XVI.

It was a region where few ships would ever have ventured, were it not for an accident of astrography that put Golen Space squarely between two long arms of more civilized and heavily traveled space.

We uncertain spellers, five or six ballet fans, sat in the gallery of the Stadttheater and looked on critically at the recital that the ballet master had ventured to stage with the help of Madame Lara.

As I ventured on I saw in the distance a forest of derricks and masts where the Grosvenor-canal had just been opened and barges from the East of the metropolis were bringing rubble for the Bason to be filled in, though of course I knew nothing of this at the time.

Once, at Baden, when Gordon Wright happened to take upon himself to remark that little Miss Evers was bored by her English gallant, Bernard had ventured to observe, in petto, that Gordon knew nothing about it.

When Ardzrouni was devoting himself to his mad venture, Boron went off with Kyot, riding into the plains and daydreaming of the Grasal as they kept their eyes alert to see if the ghost of Zosimos might appear on the horizon.

At an apartment party once, Fuzzy Britches had ventured the opinion that only pet owners should be in charge of human affairs so that they could benefit from the wise advice of enhanced animals.

A sensible man, my dear Christine, when he has been rightly brought up, never ventures upon such a question, because he is not only certain to displease, but also sure that he will never know the truth, for if the truth is likely to injure a woman in the opinion of her husband, she would be very foolish, indeed, to confess it.

I do, therefore, venture to say, that in embarking for Greece, he was not entirely influenced by such exoterical motives as the love of glory or the aspirations of heroism.

In the capacity of class homilist, I venture to call your attention, brethren and sisters, to the extraordinary common-sense displayed by the pyloric sphincter.

I have a companion, I may venture to enlarge it, but for today, you may try your hand at housewifery and clerking.

Here I was, a tired old litigator who had sold everything from my racehorse to my Rolex, and had packed all that remained into a large rucksack that would be my constant companion as I ventured into the timeless traditions of the East.

He had to believe that the gene banks had merely been a phase in an evolutionary story that stretched back from the present to the magical day when fife had first ventured forth from the littoral zones of the primordial ocean to embrace the land.