A business enterprise involving some risk in expectation of gain, An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which cannot be foreseen with certainty; the staking of something; a hazard, Chance; hap; contingency; luck; an event that is not or cannot, be foreseen, verb_ proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers, put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation, put at risk, transitive verb_ rare To confide in; to rely on; to trust, To expose to hazard; to risk; to hazard, To confide in; to rely on; to trust, intransitive verb_ To make a venture; to run a hazard or risk; to take the chances, To hazard one's self; to have the courage or presumption to do, undertake, or say something; to dare, to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success

To open to a fuller extent or width; stretch, To distribute over a surface in a layer, To prepare (a table) for eating; set, noun_ The act of spreading or extending; propagation; diffusion_ as, the spread of knowledge, A number of points offered to equalize the chances of winning in a wager on a competition, usually between sports teams, A difference, as between two figures or totals

Difference in favor of one and against another; excess of one of two things or numbers over the other; inequality; advantage; superiority; hence, excess of chances; probability. The odds are often expressed by a ratio, The ratio of winnings to stake in betting situations, the likelihood of a thing occurring rather than not occurring, noun plural_ The ratio of the probability of an event's occurring to the probability of its not occurring, A certain number of points given beforehand to a weaker side in a contest to equalize the chances of all participants, An amount or degree by which one thing exceeds or falls short of another

Plural form of chance,