the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan

a haphazard distribution in all directions

the act of mixing cards haphazardly

A regular payment, usually on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis, made by an employer to an employee, especially for manual or unskilled work, That which is paid for a service rendered; what is paid for labor; hire_ now usually in the plural, An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually expressed on an hourly basis, verb_ carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns), transitive verb_ To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager, To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard, To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war, intransitive verb_ obsolete To bind one's self; to engage

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 rub or scrape (the skin) to relieve itching, To strike out or cancel (a word, for example) by or as if by drawing lines through, Games To make a shot in billiards that results in a penalty, as when the cue ball falls into a pocket or jumps the cushion, noun_ A mark resembling a line that is produced by scratching, A contestant who has been withdrawn from a competition, A fluke or chance shot in billiards, adjective_ Assembled hastily or at random, Done haphazardly or by chance, Sports Having no golf handicap

The condition of being safe; freedom from danger, risk, or injury, A play in which a member of the offensive team downs the ball or is tackled or forced out of bounds behind his own goal line, resulting in two points for the defensive team, The condition or state of being safe; freedom from danger or hazard; exemption from hurt, injury, or loss

a graduate nurse who has passed examinations for registration, a radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium; the heaviest of the inert gasses; occurs naturally (especially in areas over granite) and is considered a hazard to health, chemistry Symbol for radon

a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury, A possible, usually negative, outcome, e.g., a danger, the probability of becoming infected given that exposure to an infectious agent has occurred, verb_ expose to a chance of loss or damage, take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome, transitive verb_ To expose to risk, hazard, or peril; to venture, To incur the risk or danger of, To incur the risk of

Of or relating to an event in which all outcomes are equally likely, as in the testing of a blood sample for the presence of a substance, Going at random or by chance; done or made at hazard, or without settled direction, aim, or purpose; hazarded without previous calculation; left to chance; haphazard, mathematics Of or relating to probability distribution, noun_ Distance to which a missile is cast; range; reach, A continuous flow of words; a harangue, A roving motion; course without definite direction; want of direction, rule, or method; hazard; chance; -- commonly used in the phrase at random, that is, without a settled point of direction; at hazard