venture
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Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛntʃə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: ven‧ture
Noun
venture (plural ventures)
- A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
- 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 4, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part I (The Old Buccaneer), page 30:
- My heart was beating finely when we two set forth in the cold night upon this dangerous venture.
- 1979, Johanna Menzel Meskill, A Chinese Pioneer Family, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 191:
- Other jobs which the governor entrusted to Ch'ao-tung dealt with the economic exploitation of the newly won mountain areas. In the Miao-li region, Ch'ao-tung headed an office for developing the petroleum resources discovered there.³⁸ Without much success during his tenure, the venture was later turned over to private entrepreneurs.
- An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen.
- Synonyms: accident, chance, contingency
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 22:34:
- A certain man drew a bow at a venture and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness.
- The thing risked; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
- Synonym: stake
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
a risky or daring undertaking or journey
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Verb
venture (third-person singular simple present ventures, present participle venturing, simple past and past participle ventured)
- (transitive) To undertake a risky or daring journey.
- 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden Jun., transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Fourteenth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
- who freights a ship to venture on the seas
- 1949, Joseph Campbell, “The Hero and the God”, in The Hero with a Thousand Faces:
- A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: […]
- (transitive) To risk or offer.
- to venture funds
- to venture a guess
- c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
- I am afraid; and yet I'll venture it.
- 1922, James Joyce, chapter 13, in Ulysses:
- Till then they had only exchanged glances of the most casual but now under the brim of her new hat she ventured a look at him and the face that met her gaze there in the twilight, wan and strangely drawn, seemed to her the saddest she had ever seen.
- 1939 November, “What the Railways are Doing: Penda's Way—A Station built in a Day”, in Railway Magazine, page 364:
- [...] Mrs. Bray [...] expressed amazement at the speed with which the station was completed, and ventured the opinion that private contractors could still learn something from the railway companies.
- (intransitive, with at or on) To dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success.
- (transitive) To put or send on a venture or chance.
- to venture a horse to the West Indies
- (transitive) To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
- 1711, Joseph Addison, “No. 21, Saturday, March 24, 1710-11”, in The Spectator:
- A man would be well enough pleased to buy silks of one whom he would not venture to feel his pulse.
- (transitive) To say something; to offer an opinion.
- 2000 January 28, Oliver Burkeman, quoting Heston Blumenthal, “Things that make you go yum”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
- “Unctuous is probably quite a good description, but there's a sweetness, too, and a mouthfeel,” ventures Heston Blumenthal, chef at the Fat Duck at Bray.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
to undertake a risky journey
to risk
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to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success
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Further reading
- “venture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “venture”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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Pronunciation
Adjective
venture
Noun
venture f
Participle
ventūre
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