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At a 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.

Usage examples of "at a venture".

I know nothing more contemptible in a writer than the character of a plagiary, which he here fixes at a venture.

He really knew nothing about it, he had merely suspicions, but he said at a venture, “.

Ferguson, not having understood them, shouted some sentences in Arabic, at a venture, and was immediately answered in that language.