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Venture   /vˈɛntʃər/   Listen
Venture

noun
1.
Any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome.
2.
An investment that is very risky but could yield great profits.  Synonym: speculation.
3.
A commercial undertaking that risks a loss but promises a profit.
verb
(past & past part. ventured; pres. part. venturing)
1.
Proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers.  Synonym: embark.
2.
Put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation.  Synonyms: guess, hazard, pretend.  "I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong"
3.
Put at risk.  Synonyms: adventure, hazard, jeopardize, stake.



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"Venture" Quotes from Famous Books



... his reel, and rolled out Robin and Madge in length and breadth, though we cannot say much for thickness. Time also developed their minds, and Robin gradually began to understand a little more of the nature of that subtle fluid—if we may venture so to call it—under the influence of which he had ...
— The Battery and the Boiler - Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables • R.M. Ballantyne
... "If I might venture to suggest, squire, while you are about it, I would ask for a hundred pounds, or even two or three hundred," said Fogg. "Your friends will think all the better of you, and feel more satisfied you intend to ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth
... that each entrance had, simultaneously and for long, been occupied by a vigilant badger; and, as both animals were full-grown "greys," I concluded that parent badgers not unusually took ample precautions against surprise before allowing their cubs to venture out into the night. ...
— Creatures of the Night - A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain • Alfred W. Rees
... Here resorted the speculators from all parts of the South, to attend the weekly auctions of imported cargoes; and the town was infested with rogues and desperadoes, who made a livelihood by robbery and murder. It was unsafe to venture into the suburbs at night, and even in daylight, there were frequent conflicts in the public streets, between the crews of the steamers in port and the soldiers stationed in the town, in which knives ...
— The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner • John Wilkinson
... the creek, and halted at very fine water-holes, within some Bricklow scrub, which here made its appearance again. The stage did not exceed six miles east; but I did not venture to proceed farther until I had examined the country in advance, which did not look very promising. I named this creek "Hughs's Creek," after—Hughs, Esq., ...
— Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia • Ludwig Leichhardt


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