Hazard Definition - Fr. Dictionary

DEFINITION #1

1. an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
2. something causing unavoidable danger, peril, risk, or difficulty: the many hazards of the big city.
3. the absence or lack of predictability; chance; uncertainty: There is an element of hazard in the execution of the most painstaking plans.
4. Golf. a bunker, sand trap, or the like, constituting an obstacle.
5. the uncertainty of the result in throwing a die.
6. a game played with two dice, an earlier and more complicated form of craps.
7. Court Tennis. any of the winning openings.
8. (in English billiards) a stroke by which the player pockets the object ball (winning hazard) or his or her own ball after contact with another ball (losing hazard).

–verb (used with object) :

1. to offer (a statement, conjecture, etc.) with the possibility of facing criticism, disapproval, failure, or the like; venture: He hazarded a guess, with trepidation, as to her motives in writing the article.
2. to put to the risk of being lost; expose to risk: In making the investment, he hazarded all his savings.
3. to take or run the risk of (a misfortune, penalty, etc.): Thieves hazard arrest.
4. to venture upon (anything of doubtful issue): to hazard a dangerous encounter.

—Idiom

1. at hazard, at risk; at stake; subject to chance: His reputation was at hazard in his new ventures.

Source : hazard. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Retrieved October 12, 2008, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hazard

DEFINITION #2

1. A chance; an accident.
2. A chance of being injured or harmed; danger: Space travel is full of hazards.
3. A possible source of danger: a fire hazard.
4. Games A dice game similar to craps.
5. Sports An obstacle, such as a sand trap, found on a golf course.

Source : hazard. (n.d.). The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Retrieved October 12, 2008, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hazard

DEFINITION #3

1. a game of chance like craps played with two dice
2. a source of danger
3. a: chance , risk b: a chance event : accident
4. obsolete : stake 3a
5. a golf-course obstacle

Source : hazard. (2008). In Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Retrieved October 12, 2008, from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hazard