hazard

  • noun 1 a danger or risk. 2 a permanent feature of a golf course which presents an obstruction. 3 literary chance; probability. 4 a gambling game using two dice.

  • verb 1 venture to say. 2 put at risk of being lost or harmed.

  — ORIGIN Old French hasard, from Persian or Turkish, ‘dice’.

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