(n.) That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
(n.) Risk; danger; peril.
(n.) The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
(n.) A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life.
(n.) A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
(n.) To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture.
(n.) To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
(v. i.) To try the chance; to take the risk.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hamish Kale Floating sauna near Uppsala, Sweden Just outside Uppsala, around one hour north of Stockholm, lies the picturesque outdoor adventure area of Fjällnora.
(2) There has been a tendency to portray Russians as aggressively imperialistic at heart, a homogeneous bloc thirsty for military adventures.
(3) Superman fans are up in arms at the decision of the publisher to appoint a noted anti-gay writer to pen the Man of Steel's latest adventures.
(4) "I wanted it to have a romantic feel," says Wilson, "recalling Donald Campbell and his Bluebird machines and that spirit of awe-inspiring adventure."
(5) The west's recent military adventures bear testimony to that.
(6) So Huck Finn floats down the great river that flows through the heart of America, and on this adventure he is accompanied by the magnificent figure of Jim, a runaway slave, who is also making his bid for freedom.
(7) Fantastic Beasts, which is set 70 years prior to the arrival of Potter and his pals at the magical Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, will feature the swashbuckling adventurer Newt Scamander.
(8) Foodmakers will also burble on about their “philosophy” or their “mission” or their “strong core values” or the “adventure” or “journey” they have been on in order to get their products triumphantly shelved in Waitrose .
(9) The development of knowledge for nursing poses an exciting, scholarly adventure for the profession's scientists.
(10) It’s unthinkable that they wouldn’t do that.” The Saw ride at Thorpe Park in Surrey and the Dragon’s Fury and Rattlesnake rollercoasters at Chessington World of Adventures, also in Surrey, have also been shut down by Merlin Entertainments, which owns all three parks.
(11) Channel 5's Val Kilmer action adventure film repeat Thirteen: Conspiracy, averaged 1 million viewers, a 5.5% share, rising to 1.1 million and 5.8% including Channel 5+1.
(12) The Campbell family has been breeding ponies in Glenshiel for more than 100 years and now runs a small pony trekking centre offering one-hour treks along the pebbly shores of Loch Duich and through the Ratagan forest as well as all-day trail rides up into the hills for the more adventurous.
(13) But one source who knows the retailer well says Tesco's US adventure was most severely hit by the timing of the sub-prime crisis and the subsequent global economic downturn.
(14) Venom is attractive because the character can exist without Spider-Man and has embarked on its own adventures when in sync with Brock.
(15) "The audience is up for a bit of excitement and adventure.
(16) The children generated three original stories, retold two adventure stories, and then answered two sets of comprehension questions after each retelling.
(17) His comic adventures are too many to relate, but it may be said that they culminate in a café of 'singing waiters' where, after a wealth of comic 'business' with the tray, he shows his disdain for articulate speech by singing a vividly explicit song in gibberish.
(18) It’s not an adventure: not that much happens here,” the spouse of one said.
(19) Maxwell's life was as adventurous as Moneypenny's was unchanging.
(20) Avery has built its reputation on several well-liked bottled beers and a whole lot more taproom-only brews, usually among Boulder's most adventurous and varied.
Mercantile
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to merchants, or the business of merchants; having to do with trade, or the buying and selling of commodities; commercial.
Example Sentences:
(1) "This financial mercantilism - which is foreign banks retreating to their home base - will, if we do nothing, lead to a new form of protectionism," he said.
(2) Jason Conibear, market analyst at forex specialists, Cambridge Mercantile, argues that Obama will be breathing a sigh of relief, even though US economic growth is slowing: American consumers are getting skittish again, but with the giant economy's output still creeping upwards, politicians and policymakers will find the perfect excuse to do nothing.
(3) The Chicago Mercantile Exchange has a wide variety of “weather derivatives” available for trade if you’re interested including “temperature ranges, snowfall amounts and frost”.
(4) Eurosceptic Bambi and his party refuse deeper collaboration with the EU on space, recoil before the overt mercantilism of the Americans and so think China offers a blank cheque book.
(5) Destined for a dusty shelf next to the Watney Cup, the Texaco Cup and the Anglo-Scottish Cup, the little-known Mercantile Credit Football Festival was part of the Football League's spectacular centenary celebrations in 1988.
(6) NOTTINGHAM FOREST'S FINEST HOUR (APART FROM THOSE EUROPEAN CUPS AND LEAGUE TITLES, OBVIOUSLY) "What on earth was the Mercantile Credit Football Festival?"
(7) This is where the word comes from – they were the first réfugiés , giving England a bold shot of craft skill, mercantile know-how and financial expertise.
(8) To underscore the project's connection to the city's carbon hungry past, the hearings were held in Manchester Town Hall, Alfred Waterhouse's neo-gothic cathedral to manufacturing and mercantilism.
(9) They impoverish not just the poor but the mercantile and professional classes, denying them contact with the outside world.
(10) Inheriting White Star from his father, his first act as owner had been to sell it to the Wall Street behemoth J Pierpont Morgan, who included it in the portfolio of his interests known as International Mercantile Marine.
(11) However, the companies need it for mercantilism, to sell and get profit.
(12) Major shareholders Toscafund, Schroders and River & Mercantile, who together control 43.9% of Findel, have already agreed to vote against Sports Direct.
(13) This stage of the nineties, framed in financial scarcity, mercantilization of knowledge and social and economic changes in general taking place in the country, favors an utilitarian-profitable-selective-competitive-privatized research, with emphasis on the technological.
(14) "This type of intervention strengthens the belief… that the aim of the ecological movement is simply to maintain the status quo of the world economy," one columnist wrote in the Monitor Mercantil newspaper last week, adding that "Cameron's colonialist message" was an attempt to "exterminate the future of Brazil".
(15) Whether it is trade wars , a significant trade contest, whether it is mercantilism more generally, whether is a much more combative militaristic approach – who knows what he will actually do?
(16) The repressive shoguns had, from 1630, cut off Japan from the outside world; enforcing feudal structures, they also brought peace after a long period of civil war, and the population was released to pursue cultivated activities, which quickly became an obsession of the mercantile middle classes.
(17) Cities may have mercantile exchange as one of their reasons for being, but once people are lured to a place for work, they need more than offices, gyms and strip clubs to really live.
(18) The mercantile spirit of Kashgar lives on however, at the livestock section, shunted a few miles south of town.
(19) Updated at 2.54pm BST 2.44pm BST Tres Knippa , a trader on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange , says investors simply aren't worried about the government shutdown.
(20) If Miliband were as radical as his aide, Jon Cruddas, wants him to be , he would set aside Adonis's worthy mercantilism and ponder how genuinely to re-energise the old industrial cities.