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Words related to chance

Related / Similar Words: probability, luck, fortune, hazard, opportunity, find, happen, bump, encounter, gamble, risk, take chances, adventure, run a risk, take a chance

Definition:

a risk involving danger; "you take a chance when you let her drive";

a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; "what is the probability of rain?"; "we have a good chance of winning";

an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another; "bad luck caused his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance";

a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances; "the holiday gave us the opportunity to visit Washington"; "now is your chance";

come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day";

take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; "When you buy these stocks you are gambling";

be the case by chance; "I chanced to meet my old friend in the street";

Hyponyms: conditional probability, contingent probability, cross section, exceedance, fair chance, sporting chance, fat chance, slim chance, joint probability, risk, risk of exposure, risk of infection, bad luck, mischance, mishap, tossup, toss-up, even chance, brass ring, day, fresh start, clean slate, tabula rasa, hearing, audience, hunting ground, occasion, opening, room, say, shot, crack, street, throw, go for broke, luck it, luck through, happen

Derivational Morphology: gamble, risk, hazard, take chances, adventure, run a risk, take a chance, guess, venture, pretend, meeting, encounter, discovery, find, uncovering, finder, discoverer, spotter, escapade, risky venture, dangerous undertaking, explorer, adventurer, venturer, jeopardy, peril, danger, gambler, risk taker, opportunity, luck, fortune

Anagrams: Aachen, achene

Language Translations:
Dutch: kans		Esperanto: ŝanco
Finnish: mahdollisuus		French: chance
German: Gelegenheit		Hebrew: סיכוי
Indonesian: sempat		Italian: possibilità
Japanese: 機会		Novial: chanse
Polish: szansa		Portuguese: chance
Slovene: priložnost		Spanish: probabilidad
Swahili: nafasi		Swedish: chanse
Telugu: అవకాశము

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