venture

venture
—venturer, n.
/ven"cheuhr/, n., v., ventured, venturing, adj.
n.
1. an undertaking involving uncertainty as to the outcome, esp. a risky or dangerous one: a mountain-climbing venture.
2. a business enterprise or speculation in which something is risked in the hope of profit; a commercial or other speculation.
3. the money, ship, cargo, merchandise, or the like, on which risk is taken in a business enterprise or speculation.
4. Obs. hazard or risk.
5. at a venture, according to chance; at random: A successor was chosen at a venture.
v.t.
6. to expose to hazard; risk: to venture one's fortune; to venture one's life.
7. to take the risk of; brave the dangers of: to venture a voyage into space.
8. to undertake to express, as when opposition or resistance appears likely to follow; be bold enough; dare: I venture to say that you are behaving foolishly.
9. to take the risk of sending.
v.i.
10. to make or embark upon a venture; dare to go: He ventured deep into the jungle.
11. to take a risk; dare; presume: to venture on an ambitious program of reform.
12. to invest venture capital.
adj.
13. of or pertaining to an investment or investments in new businesses: a venture fund.
[1400-50; late ME, aph. var. of aventure ADVENTURE]
Syn. 6. endanger, imperil, jeopardize. 11. See dare.

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