Definition of chance

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Chance (n.) The operation or activity of such agent.

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Speculation :: Speculation (n.) Any business venture in involving unusual risks, with a chance for large profits..
Lottery :: Lottery (n.) A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance; esp., a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, and the rest of tickets are blanks. Fig. : An affair of chance..
Handicap :: Handicap (n.) An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing superior advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was five seconds, or ten pounds, and the like..
Chanceable :: Chanceable (a.) Fortuitous; casual.
Encounter :: Encounter (adv.) To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile intent; to engage in conflict with; to oppose; to struggle with; as, to encounter a friend in traveling; two armies encounter each other; to encounter obstacles or difficulties, to encounter strong evidence of a truth..
Lot :: Lot (n.) The part, or fate, which falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning..
Report :: Report (v. t.) An account or statement of a judicial opinion or decision, or of case argued and determined in a court of law, chancery, etc.; also, in the plural, the volumes containing such reports; as, Coke's Reports..
Chance :: Chance (adv.) By chance; perchance.
Venture :: Venture (n.) An event that is not, or can not be, foreseen; an accident; chance; hap; contingency; luck..
Hit :: Hit (v. i.) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, -- often with implied chance, or luck..
Venture :: Venture (v. t.) To put or send on a venture or chance; as, to venture a horse to the West Indies..
Lot :: Lot (n.) Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without man's choice or will; as, to cast or draw lots..
Chance :: Chance (a.) Happening by chance; casual.
Examiner :: Examiner (n.) One who examines, tries, or inspects; one who interrogates; an officer or person charged with the duty of making an examination; as, an examiner of students for a degree; an examiner in chancery, in the patent office, etc..
Chance :: Chance (n.) A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified..
Lot :: Lot (n.) That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.
Suit :: Suit (n.) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; an action or process for the recovery of a right or claim; legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of right before any tribunal; as, a civil suit; a criminal suit; a suit in chancery..
Props :: Props (n. pl.) A game of chance, in which four sea shells, each called a prop, are used instead of dice..
Lucky :: Lucky (superl.) Producing, or resulting in, good by chance, or unexpectedly; favorable; auspicious; fortunate; as, a lucky mistake; a lucky cast; a lucky hour..
Haphazard :: Haphazard (n.) Extra hazard; chance; accident; random.
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