SPORTING CHANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sporting chance mean? 

• SPORTING CHANCE (noun)
  The noun SPORTING CHANCE has 1 sense:

1. a reasonable probability of success

  Familiarity information: SPORTING CHANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPORTING CHANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A reasonable probability of success

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

fair chance; sporting chance

Hypernyms ("sporting chance" is a kind of...):

chance; probability (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)

 Context examples 

"But the beast would certainly have a good sporting chance."

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)