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chance

English

🔊 a risk involving danger
“you take a chance when you let her drive”
🔊 a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur
“the probability that an unbiased coin will fall with the head up is 0.5”
🔊 the possibility of future success
“his prospects as a writer are excellent”
🔊 a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
“the holiday gave us the opportunity to visit Washington”
🔊 an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
“bad luck caused his downfall”
🔊 be the case by chance
“I chanced to meet my old friend in the street”
🔊 take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
“When you buy these stocks you are gambling”
🔊 come upon, as if by accident
“We find this idea in Plato”