gamble

[GamĀ·ble]

When you gamble, you take a risky chance on something. When an entrepreneur invests her own money in her business, she gambles on its success.

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To play or game for money or other stake.

Noun
a risky act or venture

Noun
money that is risked for possible monetary gain

Verb
play games for money

Verb
take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; "When you buy these stocks you are gambling"


v. i.
To play or game for money or other stake.

v. t.
To lose or squander by gaming; -- usually with away.


Gamble

Gam"ble , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gambled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Gambling .] [Dim. of game. See 2d Game.] To play or game for money or other stake.

Gamble

Gamble, v. t. To lose or squander by gaming; -- usually with away. "Bankrupts or sots who have gambled or slept away their estates." Ames.

To play or game for money or other stake.

To lose or squander by gaming; -- usually with away.

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Usage Examples

The movie business is a big gamble.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Don't gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.

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Other Usage Examples

Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own, and make that much less of an adjustment. But the 'love marriage', as it is called, is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work, and it is a gamble.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that's the gamble I'm taking.

I used to sports gamble a lot and I was getting killed on that but then I found poker and really enjoyed it. But it was a hobby more than anything else. I played it every day but only on pretty small stakes.

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.

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