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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
venture
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 many disputes, and Love was extremely litigious, appearing often as a plaintiff in Chancery.
▪ The company invests in industrial, commercial and service ventures with a strong emphasis in textiles.
▪ This is a commercial venture from which we aim to make a profit.
▪ The movement born as an alternative to the arid materialism of consumer culture is here hawked and promoted like any commercial venture.
▪ This is a peculiar anomaly in that the Transfer Regulations currently exclude undertakings in the nature of commercial ventures.
▪ Hence the Act is really talking in terms of a commercial venture A single transaction will be sufficient to satisfy s 45. 2.
cooperative
▪ Marriage teeters on the line between a cooperative venture and a form of mutual exploitation-ask any divorce lawyer.
joint
▪ This joint venture between George Gibson &038; Co.
▪ To achieve this, Quinlan is pushing ahead with a salad of deals, alliances and joint ventures.
▪ For example, large companies created ex nihilo, as in joint ventures, have a remarkable tendency to flop.
▪ Manufacturers of equipment for telecommunications, defence electronics and household appliances have merged or entered joint ventures to ensure their continued competitiveness.
▪ Today, few restaurant companies generate ideas in-house, relying instead on acquisitions or joint ventures with entrepreneurs.
▪ Crucial to the sucralose picture is the precise nature of the joint venture agreement with Johnson&Johnson;
▪ The joint venture, officially established on Jan. 1, had been in the works for several months.
new
▪ These projects have accompanying newsletters and being fairly new ventures welcome feedback.
▪ An application for a public entertainment licence for the new venture goes before Middlesbrough Council's licensing sub-committee tomorrow.
▪ At the same time, Mr Schwartz will retain control over the new space venture, a business that excites him.
▪ A government guarantee of risky loans to new ventures makes more sense.
▪ Other new retail ventures include a new coffee bar and a 24-hour diner on Main and Fourth streets.
▪ Stowe, a New York venture capital company.
similar
▪ It comes after the success of a similar venture last year in Chicago.
▪ On the following night the sailors were joined by soldiers and marines in a similar venture.
▪ The eight-day 1992 Diesel in Action programme follows a highly successful similar venture last year.
▪ He looked for people who had invested in similar Internet ventures before, and could also bring contacts and advice.
successful
▪ This has proved to be a very successful venture.
▪ Marriage itself is not a guarantee of a successful entrepreneurial venture.
▪ This led in turn to the most highly successful venture in buying and selling of business aircraft the aviation industry had seen.
▪ Today, their successful venture is run just as they had begun: John handles the key distribution and marketing challenges.
▪ So successful was this venture that two further houses were opened in September.
▪ Any successful entrepreneurial venture starts with making sure that the entrepreneur is in the best possible mental and physical health.
▪ Dear old Uncle Fergus's one successful venture into the art world.
▪ But the burning of the sloop in the Bight was to be the only successful venture of the day on their side.
■ NOUN
business
▪ Has this neglect of basic business principles destroyed the credibility of all online business ventures?
▪ The other difficulty is I have precious little instinct for business ventures.
▪ Miss Pinkney's father had been nearly bankrupted through a failed business venture with Phipps.
▪ Blow, one of the most powerful lobbying firms in Washington, and was involved in a number of business ventures.
▪ It failed; the loss on our government's business venture is around A$700 per head.
▪ Pike, who says his legal past is irrelevant to the business venture, has been reluctant to surrender full control.
▪ But a disastrous business venture has reduced him to near-ruin.
▪ Any new business venture takes time to establish.-Sufficient working capital to survive.
capital
▪ Keen on promoting venture capital, Viney owns a chain of wine bars as a sideline.
▪ But to take ViaCord beyond the start-up phase, Fisher this year plans to seek $ 6 million in venture capital.
▪ But there's still plenty of venture capital out there looking for bright new ideas.
▪ The Denver-based company initially raises $ 20 million in equity from several nationally prominent venture capital groups around the country.
▪ In terms of size, independent funds are the largest, with over 75 percent of total venture capital funds invested.
▪ But Conner needed venture capital to fund the development.
▪ It is going to take a lot more than the plethora of locally-driven modest venture capital funds to effect any worthwhile change.
▪ Petrus Partners, a venture capital firm, provided the bulk of the financing.
capitalist
▪ Importantly, these companies have been able to attract additional finance from banks and venture capitalists.
▪ With backing from San Diego venture capitalists Kingsbury Associates, the company began researching its camera.
▪ Is it backed by sophisticated venture capitalists?
▪ But venture capitalists are swooping in like vultures.
▪ My guess would be he would take the first flight to Helsinki and listen to the venture capitalists there.
▪ Training programs are turning hightech, and venture capitalists are staking millions on the new approach.
▪ When he talked about starting a company, we discussed this with several venture capitalists to see what the usual arrangement was.
company
▪ Joint control is found where the parent companies must agree on decisions concerning the joint venture company.
▪ Morgan Stanley would own 70 percent of the joint venture company, with its partner owning 30 percent.
▪ It does not exist where one of the parent companies may alone decide upon a joint venture company's commercial activities.
▪ All its scientific equipment is leased from a venture company that specializes in providing such equipment.
▪ Pavlov combined his allegations with an attack on free marketeers and private enterprise joint venture companies.
partner
▪ It can be very helpful for external discussions, for example with bankers and with potential clients or joint venture partners.
▪ Tenneco and Williams were previously joint venture partners in the pipeline.
■ VERB
form
▪ Rhône-Poulenc and Eastman Chemical have formed a 50-50 joint venture, Primester, to manufacture cellulose acetate.
▪ The hi-tech plastics come from a young company with whom Upstart has formed a joint venture.
▪ Consult and advise. Form joint venture partners.
▪ Bates has formed a joint venture to provide services needed to develop deep water projects.
invest
▪ At ePartners, only a fraction of the Dollars 300m backing from News Corp was ever invested in actual online ventures.
▪ He looked for people who had invested in similar Internet ventures before, and could also bring contacts and advice.
join
▪ Here were the people who were now convinced the paper existed and wanted to join the venture.
▪ Traditional produce and seafood markets are being joined by other ventures.
▪ Billiton, the minerals exploration subsidiary of Shell, may join the venture.
▪ He suggested that Gardner join him in the venture, but the new husband had no intention of risking his life.
▪ Indeed when they heard that Gilsland was the objective, they might well be glad to join the venture.
▪ And in 1935 Fernand Braudel joined the new venture for a three-year stint in its Faculty of Arts.
▪ To my delight, the engineers working with me joined my new venture.
▪ By eight-thirty Penelope Chilston had been invited to join the venture as features editor.
launch
▪ The Midland Railway Centre is launching a new venture in Ripley by opening its own shop, and booking office.
▪ The parties will work to satisfy the closing conditions and launch the joint venture in the first quarter of 2000.
set
▪ Others have found it more advantageous to acquire a local bank or set up a joint venture with local banks.
▪ Kodak is exploring either selling its copier unit or setting a joint venture or strategic alliance.
▪ The aim of the meeting will be to find out whether there is enough interest to set up the venture in Clwyd.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
joint venture
▪ Grove touted the Pandesic joint venture software as a turnkey solution for businesses seeking to conduct sales over the Internet.
▪ Some analysts also said that a joint venture with Canon is possible.
▪ The decision point is particularly important for joint ventures projects.
▪ This joint venture between George Gibson & Co.
▪ Under the joint venture the council will pay nothing, while profits will accrue to Biomass.
▪ United Distillers employs around 10,000 people worldwide and, with its joint ventures, an additional 1,500.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a real-estate venture
▪ Ford has invested $125 million in a joint venture to build engines in China.
▪ His bankruptcy was the result of several reckless business ventures.
▪ The group is planning to risk everything to get their next venture off the ground.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Each year we endeavour to be represented in helping in one of their fund-raising ventures.
▪ It is difficult to formulate a standard definition of a joint venture.
▪ Local councillors can be quite obstructive to new ventures by farmers.
▪ Mattel would not disclose its investment in the new venture.
▪ They said the venture is being sold because the companies can import products more economically.
▪ Westinghouse will take a 48 percent stake in the joint venture and invest $ 2. 5 million.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
forth
▪ It ventured forth only to kill cattle or flatten crops, poisoning the air with its fetid breath.
▪ As they venture forth from parents to explore their own worlds, children must make their own discoveries.
▪ After breakfast I ventured forth, and was at once overwhelmed by the beauty and the scale of the buildings.
▪ All field-workers took weapons with them, and would venture forth to collect firewood only in large parties.
▪ Even pony trap revivalists feel safe to venture forth here.
▪ Twice on Sundays he would thus venture forth, as well as to Evensong on Wednesdays and Fridays.
further
▪ The Takaroa operates from Cairns, and allows the visiting diver to venture further afield.
▪ Some students venture further afield and choose courses in the Faculties of Arts or Social Sciences.
▪ Services should be provided near enough so that people do not to have to venture further than their local shops or post office.
▪ For those who wish to venture further afield there are two waymarked Country Walks.
▪ In the early days we ventured further afield than we do now, working in Suffolk, Berkshire, Wiltshire and Surrey.
▪ But I don't remember having ventured further than the village.
▪ I didn't venture further in to find the owls in case I bumped into a Brother.
■ NOUN
opinion
▪ But the difference needs to be grasped before I can venture an opinion usefully upon that.
▪ It's not something about which I would venture any sort of opinion.
▪ It would have made it easier to help you, and I venture the opinion that our servants feel well treated.
territory
▪ The fact that we had ventured into disputed territory meant nothing to my father.
▪ He was to be found lurking in the band's dressing room whenever they ventured into Mancunian territory, which was often.
▪ And if you venture into unknown territory, how can you avoid getting lost?
▪ Discussion had ventured into dangerous territory.
▪ A few big banks have ventured into more dangerous territory.
▪ The only thing that really fascinates me is venturing into unexplored territory.
world
▪ Gradually this hardens and the animal can again venture into a hostile world.
▪ Perplexities A layman venturing into the quantum world no doubt expects to encounter some fairly strange phenomena.
▪ He hadn't been ready to venture into the world after all, and it had possessed him.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All experienced hillwalkers are well aware of the dangers of venturing on to the hills without being properly equipped and prepared.
▪ Another time, a photographer had ventured on to the reef that rose up from the sea at the far corner.
▪ But it does happen, and I venture to suggest should happen wherever there is apparently terminal decline.
▪ However, when practising always sail in a safe, flat water environment and never venture underneath any diving boards.
▪ Parents should teach youngsters to believe in themselves and to venture out and take risks.
▪ Sluggish gold and energy prices for most of 1995 helped explain investors' reluctance to venture into hard assets.
▪ The scouts would venture ahead if there was room enough to walk, and return ashen-faced.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Venture

Venture \Ven"ture\, v. t.

  1. 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.

  2. To put or send on a venture or chance; as, to venture a horse to the West Indies.

  3. To confide in; to rely on; to trust. [R.]

    A man would be well enough pleased to buy silks of one whom he would not venture to feel his pulse.
    --Addison.

Venture

Venture \Ven"ture\ (?; 135), n. [Aphetic form of OE. aventure. See Adventure.]

  1. 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.

    I, in this venture, double gains pursue.
    --Dryden.

  2. An event that is not, or can not be, foreseen; an accident; chance; hap; contingency; luck.
    --Bacon.

  3. The thing put to hazard; a stake; a risk; especially, something sent to sea in trade.

    My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
    --Shak.

    At a venture, at hazard; without seeing the end or mark; without foreseeing the issue; at random.

    A certain man drew a bow at a venture.
    --1 Kings xxii. 3

  4. A bargain at a venture made.
    --Hudibras.

    Note: The phrase at a venture was originally at aventure, that is, at adventure.

Venture

Venture \Ven"ture\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ventured; p. pr. & vb. n. Venturing.]

  1. To hazard one's self; to have the courage or presumption to do, undertake, or say something; to dare.
    --Bunyan.

  2. To make a venture; to run a hazard or risk; to take the chances.

    Who freights a ship to venture on the seas.
    --J. Dryden, Jr.

    To venture at, or To venture on or To venture upon, to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success; as, it is rash to venture upon such a project. ``When I venture at the comic style.''
    --Waller.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
venture

early 15c., "to risk the loss" (of something), shortened form of aventure, itself a form of adventure. General sense of "to dare, to presume" is recorded from 1550s. Related: Ventured; venturing.\n\nNought venter nought have

[Heywood, "Proverbs," 1546]

venture

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 attested from 1943.

Wiktionary
venture

n. 1 A risky or daring undertaking or journey. 2 An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen; an accident; chance; contingency. 3 The thing risked; a stake; especially, something sent to sea in trade. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To undertake a risky or daring journey. 2 (context transitive English) To risk or offer. 3 (context intransitive English) to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. Used with ''at'' or ''on'' 4 (context transitive English) To put or send on a venture or chance. 5 (context transitive English) To confide in; to rely on; to trust. 6 (context transitive English) To say something.

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WordNet
venture

  1. v. proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers; "We ventured into the world of high-tech and bought a supercomputer" [syn: embark]

  2. put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation; "I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again"; "I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong" [syn: guess, pretend, hazard]

  3. put at risk; "I will stake my good reputation for this" [syn: hazard, adventure, stake, jeopardize]

venture

  1. n. any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome

  2. an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits; "he knew the stock was a speculation when he bought it" [syn: speculation]

  3. a commercial undertaking that risks a loss but promises a profit

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Wikipedia
Venture

Venture may refer to:

Venture (video game)

Venture is a 1981 fantasy-themed arcade game by Exidy. It was ported to the ColecoVision, Atari 2600, and Intellivision home systems.

Venture (magazine)

Venture magazine is a business management magazine. It focuses on business best practices. It is used by business leaders to learn from their colleagues' successes and challenges.

Venture (TV series)

Venture is a weekly Canadian business television series that aired on CBC Television from 1985 to 2007. The show focused mostly on business documentaries, but also aired business-related news pieces. In the beginning, Venture was hosted by Patrick Watson, who previously hosted the controversial but wildly popular Sunday evening news program This Hour has Seven Days in the 1960s.

More recently, the program was hosted by Robert Scully. Its most recent host was Dianne Buckner.

Venture's more recent special features are documentary pieces called Back to the Floor, in which a chief executive officer works at an entry-level job within their own company for a day.

CBC announced the cancellation of Venture on 4 April 2007. Episodes were broadcast on Sundays until 2 September 2007.

Venture (department store)

Venture was a chain of discount department stores operating in Australia. It was developed by South Australian department store John Martins and was opened in 1970. The chain grew to cover much of the country. It was sold to the Cookes family which purchased the Waltons chain of department stores in 1987 and promptly closed it down, converting most of the stores to the Venture banner. In 1994, the company went bankrupt due to financial difficulties and soon after, it was closed down. The demise of Venture accelerated the national expansion of Harris Scarfe and the statewide expansion of FitzGeralds in Tasmania (FitzGeralds was merged with Harris Scarfe a year later).

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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.