hazard
an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
something causing unavoidable danger, peril, risk, or difficulty: The many hazards of the big city did nothing to convince her to leave.
the absence or lack of predictability; chance; uncertainty: There is an element of hazard in the execution of the most painstaking plans.
Golf. a bunker, sand trap, or the like, constituting an obstacle.
the uncertainty of the result in throwing a die.
a game played with two dice, an earlier and more complicated form of craps.
Court Tennis. any of the winning openings.
(in English billiards) a stroke by which the player pockets the object ball (winning hazard ) or their own ball after contact with another ball (losing hazard ).
to offer (a statement, conjecture, etc.) with the possibility of facing criticism, disapproval, failure, or the like; venture: He hazarded a guess, with trepidation, as to her motives in writing the article.
to put to the risk of being lost; expose to risk: In making the investment, he hazarded all his savings.
to take or run the risk of (a misfortune, penalty, etc.): Thieves hazard arrest.
to venture upon (anything of doubtful issue): to hazard a dangerous encounter.
Idioms about hazard
at hazard, at risk; at stake; subject to chance: His reputation was at hazard in his new ventures.
Origin of hazard
1synonym study For hazard
Other words for hazard
Opposites for hazard
Other words from hazard
- haz·ard·a·ble, adjective
- haz·ard·er, noun
- haz·ard·less, adjective
- pre·haz·ard, adjective
- un·haz·ard·ed, adjective
- un·haz·ard·ing, adjective
- well-haz·ard·ed, adjective
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How to use hazard in a sentence
And profitable, fun activities tend to stick around, no matter what their moral hazards.
The Bill Nye-Ken Ham Debate Was a Nightmare for Science | Michael Schulson | February 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe told me in our last talk that in all the hazards he had met in his life, he had never been afraid.
To be accused of prejudice is one of the occupational hazards of public life nowadays.
Others may have been too preoccupied with 538 and unskewedpolls.com to focus on the hazards ahead.
In fact, the real hazards I faced—as usual in my jogs—were slippery steps, rocky roads and the occasional bicyclist.
Massna wished at all hazards to continue the fight on the morrow, but his principal officers were strongly opposed to it.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonThe incident recalled was one that he would fain have forgotten, one the truth of which he intended at all hazards to conceal.
The Doctor of Pimlico | William Le QueuxIeupardyes, hazards, critical positions, problems; see note on Cant.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems | Geoffrey ChaucerUp around Springfield, seventy-five miles away, and Schofield's orders are to hold this position at all hazards.
The Courier of the Ozarks | Byron A. DunnBesides, he is the brother of the Rokurrea we killed beyond Boorhanpoor, and he must be mine at all hazards.
Confessions of a Thug | Philip Meadows Taylor
British Dictionary definitions for hazard
/ (ˈhæzəd) /
exposure or vulnerability to injury, loss, evil, etc
at hazard at risk; in danger
a thing likely to cause injury, etc
golf an obstacle such as a bunker, a road, rough, water, etc
chance; accident (esp in the phrase by hazard)
a gambling game played with two dice
real tennis
the receiver's side of the court
one of the winning openings
billiards a scoring stroke made either when a ball other than the striker's is pocketed (winning hazard) or the striker's cue ball itself (losing hazard)
to chance or risk
to venture (an opinion, guess, etc)
to expose to danger
Origin of hazard
1Derived forms of hazard
- hazardable, adjective
- hazard-free, adjective
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