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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



... her foot on the step, a timid voice addressed her in a low tone of supplication. "May I venture to speak one word to ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade
... into this particular novel. The "whimsical title" at first offended him, but as he proceeded, he became so enthusiastic over the moral excellence of the work, that he expunged some offensive passages it contained, and republished it for the benefit of the Methodists. "I now venture to recommend the following treatise," said Wesley to his people, "as the most excellent in its kind that I have seen either in the English or any other language. * * * It perpetually aims at inspiring and increasing every right affection; at the ...
— A History of English Prose Fiction • Bayard Tuckerman
... We venture to assert that less than one per cent. of those who imagine they have "Bright's," have this disease at all. We find that most of those who, as one of our Faculty puts it, insist upon having Bright's disease, base their "diagnosis" upon the ever-changing condition of ...
— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce
... can't oblige you, ma'am; my kettle is wanted for my husband's tea. Don't be afeared, Tommy, Mrs. Hodgson won't venture to intrude herself where she's not desired. You'd better send for the doctor, ma'am, instead of wasting your time in wringing your ...
— The Grey Woman and other Tales • Mrs. (Elizabeth) Gaskell
... have had the confidence to go thus far, I shall venture yet a little forwarder, and be so bold as to say thus much more: all that final happiness, which christians, through so many rubs and briars of difficulties, contend for, is at last no better than a sort of folly and madness. This, ...
— In Praise of Folly - Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts • Desiderius Erasmus


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