venture
IPA: vˈɛntʃɝ
noun
- A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
- An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen.
- The thing risked; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
verb
- (transitive) To undertake a risky or daring journey.
- (transitive) To risk or offer.
- (intransitive, with at or on) To dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success.
- (transitive) To put or send on a venture or chance.
- (transitive) To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
- (transitive) To say something; to offer an opinion.
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Examples of "venture" in Sentences
- He turned short upon me, and asked me what I called a venture?
- The success or failure of the venture is a factor of the success or failure of reconstruction.
- So we look at what we call a venture backed brand new IPO and certainly an IPO has been around the block for a while.
- Thomas Cook Chief Executive Manny Fontenla-Novoa said the venture is a landmark deal and a significant consolidation opportunity.
- A key component of this venture is the ability to connect the digital image of a business storefront to the traditional business data captured by infoUSA.
- Here is the entire chronicle of Sam Gunn, trailblazer and scoundrel, as he scams his way from one end of the Solar System to the other, giving bold new meaning to the term venture capitalist.
- By definition, the term venture implies uncertainty, high risk reward and the probability of zero return … however, in hedging that risk reward by throwing out the least probable high return "ventures" the VC industry betrayed the idea of a VC industry over the last 15 years and hurt the entire technological and entrepreneurial effort in the US.
- Speculative interest has its legitimate purpose in giving an opportunity to those who have bought stock and held it during the development period to make the profits to which they are entitled ifs the venture is a success, but it is the hard, honest work on, the ground that is going to develop the Great Bear Lake area or any other area in Canada today.
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