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jeopardy

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 ...

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

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jeopardy \Jeop"ard*y\, v. t. To jeopardize. [R.] --Thackeray.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
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". ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 ...

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.