chance

Plural: chances

Noun

• a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
  • "now is your chance"
• an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
  • "we ran into each other by pure chance"
• a risk involving danger
  • "you take a chance when you let her drive"
• a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible
• the possibility of future success
• An opportunity or possibility.
• Random occurrence; luck.
• The probability of something happening.
• probability; possibility.
• What befalls or happens to a person; their lot or fate.

Verb

Verb Forms: chanced, chancing, chances

• To happen unexpectedly; to risk or dare.
• be the case by chance
  • "I chanced to meet my old friend in the street"
• take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
• come upon, as if by accident; meet with
  • "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"
• To happen by chance, to occur.
• To befall; to happen to.
• To try or risk.
• To discover something by chance.
• To rob, cheat or swindle someone.
• To take an opportunity from someone; to cut a queue.

Adjective Satellite

• occurring or appearing or singled out by chance
  • "a chance occurrence"

Adj

• Happening by chance, casual.

Adv

• Perchance; perhaps.

Examples

• He chanced upon a kindly stranger who showed him the way.
• He decided to CHANCE a challenge, hoping his opponent’s obscure word was invalid.
• If you get the chance, try and catch the new production of "Hamlet."
• It chanced that I found a solution the very next day.
• Shall we carry the umbrella, or chance a rainstorm?
• The car broke down a week after I bought it. I was chanced by that fast-talking salesman.
• There is a 30 percent chance of rain tomorrow.
• There was a fat/slim chance that my letter would arrive in time.
• We had the chance to meet the president last week: we have a good/strong chance of making / to make a profit.
• Why leave it to chance when a few simple steps will secure the desired outcome?

Synonyms

adventure, bump, casual, encounter, find, fortune, gamble, happen, hazard, luck, opportunity, probability, prospect, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances, accident, casualty, chance, chance-medley, come across, come on, come to pass, come upon, contingency, contingent, deceive, destin, destiny, doom, eventuality, fatality, fate, fool, foredoom, foreordination, hap, joss, kismet, lot, occur, orlay, portion, possibility, potentiality, predestination, predestiny, preordination, qadar, serendipity, stumble upon, test, transpire, trick, weird, wyrd

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