noun
- The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
- An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
- (in driving a vehicle) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
- A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
- The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
- A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
- Chance.
- Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
- The side of the court into which the ball is served.
- A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.
Synonyms: bet, pledge, skin in the game, wager, fortune, luck, adventure
verb
- To expose to chance; to take a risk.
- To risk (something); to venture, to incur, or bring on.
Pronunciation
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Hazard is a 2-meaning word in English. Medium-length words often have several interesting anagrams.
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