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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
jeopardy
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
double jeopardy
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
double
▪ Lawyers argued that it would be unfair and oppressive to remove the protection of the double jeopardy rule.
▪ None was a case of double jeopardy.
▪ Abolishing the rule of double jeopardy after a full trial and jury acquittal is unprincipled and impractical, he said.
▪ Nor is there any double jeopardy bar to a civil case following a criminal acquittal.
▪ The review of double jeopardy is not a zany proposal.
▪ Does the Merger Regulation prevent double jeopardy?
■ VERB
place
▪ The criminal trial system would be placed in jeopardy.
▪ Because in the act of explanation he would have to reveal his past culpability, and this would place him in jeopardy.
▪ If it were to do so, the very existence of the currency union would be placed in jeopardy.
put
▪ This infantile behaviour is putting the book in jeopardy and makes it very hard to collate info on what's going on.
▪ J., it could put into jeopardy the routine affirmative action moves made by private and public employers nationwide.
▪ I was not prepared to see that record put in jeopardy.
▪ The message jolted him, for it suddenly put our destination in jeopardy.
▪ None of that, for reasons that I have already explained, is put in jeopardy by the trust proposal.
▪ He is not put into jeopardy for having made the mistakes but for having learned from them.
▪ For the sake of a handful of people making huge profits the entire planet has been put in jeopardy.
▪ Her film career languished and her friendship with the outspokenly leftist Paul Robeson put Horne in further jeopardy.
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▪ Because in the act of explanation he would have to reveal his past culpability, and this would place him in jeopardy.
▪ It would put his career at risk, but that was already in jeopardy, so what had he to lose?
▪ J., it could put into jeopardy the routine affirmative action moves made by private and public employers nationwide.
▪ This infantile behaviour is putting the book in jeopardy and makes it very hard to collate info on what's going on.
▪ Yet without fairly radical surgery, the long-term health of the company might have been in jeopardy.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jeopardy

Jeopardy \Jeop"ard*y\, v. t. To jeopardize. [R.]
--Thackeray.

Jeopardy

Jeopardy \Jeop"ard*y\, n. [OE. jupartie, juperti, jeuparti, OF. jeu parti an even game, a game in which the chances are even; OF. jeu, ju, F. jeu (L. jocus jest) + F. partier to divide, L. partire to divide. See Joke, and Part.] Exposure to death, loss, or injury; hazard; danger.

There came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy.
--Luke viii. 23.

Look to thyself, thou art in jeopardy.
--Shak.

Syn: Danger; peril; hazard; risk. See Danger.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
jeopardy

c.1300, ioparde (13c. in Anglo-French), from Old French jeu parti, literally "a divided game, game with even chances," from jeu "a game" (from Latin iocus "jest;" see joke (n.)) + parti, past participle of partir "to divide" (see part (v.)). Originally "a stratagem;" sense of "danger, risk" is late 14c.

Wiktionary
jeopardy

n. danger of loss, harm, or failure.

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WordNet
jeopardy

n. a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune; "drinking alcohol is a health hazard" [syn: hazard, peril, risk]

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Wikipedia
Jeopardy (TV series)

Jeopardy is a British–Australian children's science fiction drama programme that ran for three series, from 26 April 2002 to 11 May 2004, on BBC One. It was created Tim O'Mara, Paul Wroblewski directed and Andy Rowley produced, with executive production by Richard Langridge for Wark Clements and Claire Mundell for CBBC Scotland. The series was produced for CBBC Scotland and was filmed on location in both Scotland and Australia. It also aired on ABC in Australia. In 2002, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awarded the first series Best Children's Drama.

Jeopardy (album)

Jeopardy is the debut studio album by English post-punk band The Sound, released in November 1980 by record label Korova.

The album fared poorly commercially, but received critical acclaim. One single, "Heyday", was released from the album.

Jeopardy (song)

"Jeopardy" is a hit song released in 1983 by The Greg Kihn Band on their album Kihnspiracy. It is the band's first and only Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, reaching number 2 in May 1983 (behind Michael Jackson's " Beat It") and also hitting number 1 on the dance charts for two weeks a month earlier. The song also reached number 63 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the band's only charting song in the UK. The song is written in the key of D minor. The song switches to the relative F Major Key in the song's Pre-Chorus.

Jeopardy (disambiguation)

Jeopardy! is a television game show.

Jeopardy may also refer to:

  • Jeopardy! (UK game show), the British adaptation of the American game show
  • Jeopardy (TV series), a dramatic BBC TV series
  • Jeopardy (film), a 1953 film starring Barbara Stanwyck and Ralph Meeker
  • Jeopardy (album), a 1980 album by The Sound
  • "Jeopardy" (song), a song by The Greg Kihn Band
  • "Jeopardy" (NCIS), an episode of NCIS
Jeopardy (film)

Jeopardy is a 1953 suspense film noir directed by John Sturges. The black-and-white film stars Barbara Stanwyck and Barry Sullivan as a married couple and Ralph Meeker as an escaped killer. The film was based on a 22-minute radio play, "A Question of Time".

Award-winning cinematographer Victor Milner, in addition to photographing the film, also has a bit part in the movie.

A portion of the film was shot in Pioneertown and features footage of the "cantina" building that now houses the popular hipster music venue known as Pappy & Harriet's.

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Usage examples of "jeopardy".

He had hopes, too, of ultimately catching the good attorney napping, and leading him too, bound and docile, into his ergastulum, although he was himself just now in jeopardy from that quarter.

My duty, howsomever, is to defeat and break it, which will place me again in jeopardy.

Court appeared to have been presented with issues, the disposition of which would preclude further avoidance of a decision as to whether the double jeopardy provision of the Fifth Amendment had become operable as a restraint upon the States by reason of its incorporation into the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

But in March--before its marketing anywhere-an event occurred that confirmed earlier fears and placed in jeopardy, it seemed, the entire future of Peptide 7.

Unless the yachters were a bunch of total idiots, they had to have a Mayday signal on the air by now, reporting their location and the nature of their jeopardy.

Presently, amidst the groanings of his spirit, it was revealed to Louis what he should do to wipe out his guilt, and these old dreams merged suddenly into a plan of scope and grandeur befitting a king who had put his soul in jeopardy and brought anathema upon his people.

Separate convictions under different counts charging a monopolization and a conspiracy to monopolize trade, in an indictment under the Sherman Antitrust Act, do not amount to double jeopardy.

This peace-- the fruit of Marengo and Hohenlinden--restored France to that honourable position which had been put in jeopardy by the feeble and incapable government of the pentarchy and the reverses of 1799.

Rather than have a human being placed in jeopardy, The Shadow would have preferred a later meeting with Verdugo, under some other circumstances.

All this is necessarily absent from visual SF, which -- also necessarily -- looks on SF as a grab-bag full of ideas useful to put Scott Bakula in jeopardy again this week.

SF as a grab-bag full of ideas useful to put Scott Bakula in jeopardy again this week.

They hurried out of the room, relieved to be sent away, for when a khalif and emir of the Beja is angry all men around him are in jeopardy.

Their demeanor convinced me that I might still be in some legal jeopardy for defending myself against Phil Barrett up in the blowdown, so I asked to be allowed to make a phone call.

Again, if the dart be successful, then at the second critical instant, that is, when the whale starts to run, the boatheader and harpooneer likewise start to running fore and aft, to the imminent jeopardy of themselves and every one else.

But the real jeopardy would be learning how to work with Cali without getting involved on a personal level.