venture

Shortening of adventure.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/

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• Hyphenation: ven‧ture

venture (plural ventures)

1. 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.

2. An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen; an accident; chance; contingency.
   • 1611, Authorised Version, I Kings 22, 34,

     A certain man drew a bow at a venture and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness.

3. The thing risked; a stake; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
   • Shakespeare

     My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.

• business venture
• joint venture

venture (third-person singular simple present ventures, present participle venturing, simple past and past participle ventured)

1. (transitive) To undertake a risky or daring journey.
   • J. Dryden, Jr.

     who freights a ship to venture on the seas

2. (transitive) To risk or offer.

   to venture funds

   to venture a guess

   Nothing venture, nothing win

   • Shakespeare

     I am afraid; and yet I'll venture it.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Chapter 13

     Till 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.

3. (intransitive) to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. Used with at or on
4. (transitive) To put or send on a venture or chance.

   to venture a horse to the West Indies

5. (transitive) To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
   • Addison

     A man would be well enough pleased to buy silks of one whom he would not venture to feel his pulse.

6. (transitive) To say something.

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:venture.

• venture capital

• venturesome
• venturous

• venture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• venture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• Rhymes: -ure

venture

1. feminine plural of venturo

venture f

1. plural of ventura

ventūre

1. vocative masculine singular of ventūrus