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hazard

/ˈhæzɚd/

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What does hazard mean?

noun

  1. Chance; accident, unpredictability.
  2. The risk of some loss or harm; danger, peril, the chance of an adverse outcome.
  3. A situation involving such a risk of harm or loss; (later also) a person or object which poses such a risk, something seen as a source of danger or difficulty.
More meanings (11)

noun

  1. Each of the various openings or galleries around the side of a court.
  2. A stroke which results in potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
  3. Something which prevents free striking of the ball, such as a sand or water obstacle.
  4. A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.
  5. (historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes, popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
  6. (obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
  7. (historical) A cabstand, especially in Dublin.

verb

  1. To expose to chance; to take a risk.
  2. To risk (something); to venture, incur, or bring on.

proper noun

  1. A surname.
  2. A home rule city, the county seat of Perry County, Kentucky, United States.
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IPA pronunciation

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Then, taking him by the arm, had led him to the card-room, and engaged him in a long game of hazard.
Emmuska Orczy, Baroness OrczyThe Scarlet PimpernelProject Gutenberg ebook #60
I will after straight And tell him so, for I will ease my heart, Albeit I make a hazard of my head.
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100
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I have said already that but for the hazard of a journey to Tahiti I should doubtless never have written this book.
W. Somerset (William Somerset) MaughamThe Moon and SixpenceProject Gutenberg ebook #222
In this eagerness to encounter, they advanced against each other, till both were near Scotussa, where they resolved to hazard a battle.
PlutarchPlutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and RomansProject Gutenberg ebook #674
But unwilling to hazard the responsibility, she let me in, and presently brought the sharp message that I was to “come up.”
Charles DickensGreat ExpectationsProject Gutenberg ebook #1400