(v. t.) To lose or squander by gaming; -- usually with away.
Example Sentences:
(1) Now Trump is taking the biggest gamble of his short political career.
(2) It's not a great stretch to see parallels between the movie's set-up and the film industry in 2012: disposable teens are manipulated into behaving in certain ways, before being degraded and dispatched, all the while being remotely observed by middle-aged men, gambling on their fates.
(3) The causes of variation need to be investigated to ensure care is never a gamble,” added McNamara.
(4) So it was with cruelty – the same cruelty seen in the enactment of the Muslim travel ban and the gamble with the healthcare of 24 million people – that Trump signed an executive order to begin construction immediately .
(5) The City is rife with gambling addicts whose habits contribute to a risk-prone culture of the sort which helped Kweku Adoboli lose UBS £1.5bn, according to one London trader.
(6) But that strategy is also a gamble for environmental groups.
(7) Dangerfield then starred in Easy Money (1983), in which he is a working-class slob who could receive $10m from his late mother-in-law's estate if he gives up his vices, including smoking, drinking and gambling.
(8) The court heard how all of these areas and more are gambled on in the unregulated Asian markets, in so-called "fancy bets".
(9) The main findings were that, as measured on the ARCI, "simulated winning at gambling" produced a euphoria similar to the euphoria induced by the psychoactive drugs of abuse, particularly psychomotor stimulants; secondly, that as a group, the pathological gamblers, demonstrated elevated psychopathy scale scores similar to psychopathy scores found among persons with histories of drug dependence.
(10) It may prove an inspired gamble that energises the Tory base with a simple offer that cuts straight through to the ballot box.
(11) Steve Ballmer started at Microsoft in 1980, arriving from Procter & Gamble to become Bill Gates' first business manager.
(12) But while the betting industry claims it would like to encourage “responsible gambling”, these semantics imply that those who become addicted to their products are entirely to blame, and that their products are not.
(13) In addition Ofcom has reclassified all transactional gambling shows on TV as teleshopping.
(14) Kweku Adoboli repeatedly broken down in tears on Friday as the former UBS "rogue trader" defended himself against charges that he gambled away £1.5bn of his Swiss bank's money.
(15) Walter Cannon with his concept of homeostasis and Henderson, Gamble, Peters and Van Slyke with their definition of the chemical anatomy of the organic fluids and their quantitative analysis, opened the way to Francis Moore's concept of surgery and trauma as metabolic problems.
(16) The businesses include corporations such as Pepsi, Ikea, Accenture, Burberry, Procter & Gamble, Heinz, JP Morgan and FedEx.
(17) The bookmaker said it considered the sector to be a "legitimate betting market" that proved one of its most popular non-sports gambling opportunities for the month of September.
(18) A 1981 report by a New Jersey regulator also shows a $7.5m loan from the patriarch, and years later he bought $3.5m in gambling chips to help his son pay off the debts of a failing casino, which was found to have broken the law by accepting them .
(19) The whole renegotiation was a gambling of Britain’s place in Europe in the case of Tory party management.
(20) To secure a yes, ask if we should stick with what we know instead of recklessly gambling with jobs and investment; ask if Britain is an open country at heart and if we want the future to be modelled on something more optimistic than Nigel Farage’s fantasies about the past.
Venture
Definition:
(n.) 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.
(n.) An event that is not, or can not be, foreseen; an accident; chance; hap; contingency; luck.
(n.) The thing put to hazard; a stake; a risk; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
(v. i.) To hazard one's self; to have the courage or presumption to do, undertake, or say something; to dare.
(v. i.) To make a venture; to run a hazard or risk; to take the chances.
(v. t.) To expose to hazard; to risk; to hazard; as, to venture one's person in a balloon.
(v. t.) To put or send on a venture or chance; as, to venture a horse to the West Indies.
(v. t.) To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
Example Sentences:
(1) In London, diesel emissions are now so bad that on several days earlier this summer, children, older people and vulnerable adults were warned not to venture outside .
(2) In a new venture, BDJ Study Tours will offer a separate itinerary for partners on the Study Safari so whilst the business of dentistry gets under way they can explore additional sights in this fascinating country.
(3) Clearly, therefore, image is everything, especially in a world that can still be unkind to geeky people venturing out in public wearing their latest invention.
(4) The venture capitalist argued in his report, commissioned by the Downing Street policy guru Steve Hilton, in favour of "compensated no fault-dismissal" for small businesses.
(5) The affiliation set up a joint venture to operate two clinics, one on Scholl College's traditional campus and one at the teaching hospital.
(6) Casaleggio himself ventured that the M5S's programme could be like that of the Swedish Social Democrats.
(7) They also point to her involvement, between 1999 and 2005, with Computer Associates-Jinchen, a joint venture between an American tech company and a Chinese firm in which China’s ministry of public security reportedly held a 20% stake.
(8) "All the other titles are joint ventures or published under licence," he said.
(9) This finding accords with the results of similar studies of infection immunity to other intracellular parasites, and implies that the expression of cellular resistance to F. tularensis is a cooperative venture involving specifically sensitized lymphocytes and non-specific inflammatory cells, presumably macrophages.
(10) "[The partnership] would take account of things they are very good at and the things that we are good at and put them together in a new venture," Smith told peers.
(11) Other joint venture deals, designed to give the Pinewood name a global footprint, have also created Pinewood Toronto Studios and Pinewood Malaysia Iskandar Studios, with the latter due to open in 2013.
(12) Lewis Wind Power, the joint venture company set up by Amec and British Energy, said it was "bitterly disappointed" by the decision.
(13) Roy Keane tends to play conservatively these days but took the opportunity before the interval to venture forward more and it was from his cross that Robbie Keane scored No2, taken at the second attempt after his initial shot had hit a defender.
(14) Those seeking to stop the project contend that the $997m joint venture, signed in May 2010, did not undergo parliamentary scrutiny because it was concluded under the previous military regime.
(15) It’s the first time the digital monsters have made it on to smartphones – so what do you make of this new venture?
(16) Infusion or CRF into the LC (1-100 ng) significantly increased the time spent in the compartment and decreased the amount of time spent exploring the outside of the compartment or venturing into the inner squares of the open field, all indices of anxiogenic behavior.
(17) It seemed that a gust of wind had dislodged part of the screen’s moorings leaving the visiting Leicester party, who had to negotiate a new take-off slot for their post-match flight back to East Midlands, looking unimpressed when they ventured to the touchline.
(18) DMGT has also confirmed it is in talks to join the Local World joint venture.
(19) The charity has long been known for working in troublespots where few other humanitarians would venture, and for its “first in, last out” approach.
(20) The sale of Vodafone's 45% stake in its US joint venture to its partner Verizon Communications would end 13 years of an often fractious shared ownership.