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| haz·ard [ házzərd ] |
noun (plural haz·ards) |
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1. potential danger: something that is potentially very dangerous
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2. engineering dangerous outcome: a dangerous or otherwise unwanted outcome, especially one resulting from the failure of an engineered system
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3. golf obstacle on golf course: a natural or constructed obstacle on a golf course, e.g. a sand trap or a lake
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4. gambling dice game: a dice game resembling craps
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5. cue games scoring stroke in billiards: in billiards, a scoring stroke made when a ball is pocketed, either a ball other than the striker's winning hazard or the striker's cue ball itself losing hazard
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6. racket games receiver's side in court tennis: in court tennis, the receiver's side of the court
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transitive verb (past and past participle haz·ard·ed, present participle haz·ard·ing, 3rd person present singular haz·ards) |
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1. suggest something tentatively: to offer a tentative explanation of something
  Would anyone like to hazard a guess as to what this could possibly mean?
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2. risk loss of something: to chance or risk something, especially in order to gain something else
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| [13th century. Via Old French hasard "game of chance played with dice" < Arabic az-zahr "the die, the chance"] |
