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Venture   /vˈɛntʃər/   Listen
noun
Venture  n.  
1.
An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation. "I, in this venture, double gains pursue."
2.
An event that is not, or can not be, foreseen; an accident; chance; hap; contingency; luck.
3.
The thing put to hazard; a stake; a risk; especially, something sent to sea in trade. "My ventures are not in one bottom trusted."
At a venture, at hazard; without seeing the end or mark; without foreseeing the issue; at random. "A certain man drew a bow at a venture." "A bargain at a venture made." Note: The phrase at a venture was originally at aventure, that is, at adventure.


verb
Venture  v. t.  
1.
To expose to hazard; to risk; to hazard; as, to venture one's person in a balloon. "I am afraid; and yet I'll venture it."
2.
To put or send on a venture or chance; as, to venture a horse to the West Indies.
3.
To confide in; to rely on; to trust. (R.) " A man would be well enough pleased to buy silks of one whom he would not venture to feel his pulse."


Venture  v. i.  (past & past part. ventured; pres. part. venturing)  
1.
To hazard one's self; to have the courage or presumption to do, undertake, or say something; to dare.
2.
To make a venture; to run a hazard or risk; to take the chances. "Who freights a ship to venture on the seas."
To venture at, or To venture on or To venture upon, to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success; as, it is rash to venture upon such a project. "When I venture at the comic style."





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"Venture" Quotes from Famous Books



... I. 'Gracious powers, do you ever venture for to call Miss Mountain by such a name? Miss Mountain, ...
— The Virginians • William Makepeace Thackeray
... It seems that some cause can be assigned to the divine will. For Augustine says (Qq. lxxxiii, 46): "Who would venture to say that God made all things irrationally?" But to a voluntary agent, what is the reason of operating, is the cause of willing. Therefore the will of God has ...
— Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas
... conversion so strangely affected her that she had not felt able to go boldly into the shop, as she had meant to do, and make a few purchases in the way of friendliness. "I'm a silly woman!" she muttered. Later, she did venture, timidly abrupt, into the shop, and was received with fitting state by Mrs. Critchlow (as desiccated as ever), who insisted on allowing her the special trade discount. And she carried her little friendly purchases round ...
— The Old Wives' Tale • Arnold Bennett
... to assure to Suffren the full credit of his subsequent course, it is necessary to emphasize the fact that Bussy, though commander-in-chief both by land and sea, did not venture to order him to leave Trincomalee and come to his support. Allowing him to feel the extremity of the danger, he told him not to leave port unless he heard that the army was shut up in Cuddalore, and blockaded by the English ...
— The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 • A. T. Mahan
... headaches which still came and went with painful regularity. In the mountains lay what he sought—a hidden something within his brain told him that over and over—but the mountains were taboo, and he should not venture into them. ...
— The Time Traders • Andre Norton


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