Venture
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈvɛnt͡ʃɚ/
Origin
Shortening of adventure.
Full definition of venture
Noun
venture
(plural ventures)- A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island. Chapter 4.My heart was beating finely when we two set forth in the cold night upon this dangerous venture.
- An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen; an accident; chance; contingency.
- The thing risked; a stake; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
- ShakespeareMy ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
Verb
- (transitive) To undertake a risky or daring journey.
- J. Dryden, Jr.who freights a ship to venture on the seas
- (transitive) To risk or offer.to venture fundsto venture a guess
- ShakespeareI am afraid; and yet I'll venture it.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses (novel) Chapter 13Till 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.
- (intransitive) to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. Used with at or on
- (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.
- AddisonA man would be well enough pleased to buy silks of one whom he would not venture to feel his pulse.