VENTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does venture mean? 

• VENTURE (noun)
  The noun VENTURE has 3 senses:

1. any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome

2. an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits

3. a commercial undertaking that risks a loss but promises a profit

  Familiarity information: VENTURE used as a noun is uncommon.

• VENTURE (verb)
  The verb VENTURE has 3 senses:

1. proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers

2. put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation

3. put at risk

  Familiarity information: VENTURE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VENTURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("venture" is a kind of...):

labor; project; task; undertaking (any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "venture"):

joint venture (a venture by a partnership or conglomerate designed to share risk or expertise)

experiment (a venture at something new or different)

campaign; cause; crusade; drive; effort; movement (a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end)

sally; sallying forth (a venture off the beaten path)

danger; peril; risk (a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury)

Derivation:

venture (proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An investment that is very risky but could yield great profits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

speculation; venture

Context example:

he knew the stock was a speculation when he bought it

Hypernyms ("venture" is a kind of...):

investment; investment funds (money that is invested with an expectation of profit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "venture"):

gamble (money that is risked for possible monetary gain)

smart money (money bet or invested by experienced gamblers or investors (especially if they have inside information))

pyramid ((stock market) a series of transactions in which the speculator increases his holdings by using the rising market value of those holdings as margin for further purchases)

Derivation:

venture (put at risk)

venturous (disposed to venture or take risks)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A commercial undertaking that risks a loss but promises a profit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("venture" is a kind of...):

business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)

Derivation:

venture (put at risk)

venturous (disposed to venture or take risks)

• VENTURE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they venture    ... he / she / it ventures   
Past simple: ventured   
Past participle: ventured   
-ing form: venturing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

embark; venture

Context example:

We ventured into the world of high-tech and bought a supercomputer

Hypernyms (to "venture" is one way to...):

go; move; proceed (follow a procedure or take a course)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

venture (any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome)

venturer (a person who enjoys taking risks)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

guess; hazard; pretend; venture

Context example:

I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong

Hypernyms (to "venture" is one way to...):

speculate (talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "venture"):

anticipate; call; forebode; foretell; predict; prognosticate; promise (make a prediction about; tell in advance)

surmise; suspect (imagine to be the case or true or probable)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sense 3

Meaning:

Put at risk

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

adventure; hazard; jeopardize; stake; venture

Context example:

I will stake my good reputation for this

Hypernyms (to "venture" is one way to...):

lay on the line; put on the line; risk (expose to a chance of loss or damage)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

venture (a commercial undertaking that risks a loss but promises a profit)

venture (an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits)

venturer (a person who enjoys taking risks)

 Context examples 

“That is just what I was about to venture to propose,” returned the doctor with a smile.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I admired your resolution very much, sir, said he, in venturing out in such weather, for of course you saw there would be snow very soon.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

At length I ventured to take his hand, and to entreat him, as well as I could, to endeavour to get some command of himself.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A further knowledge of facts is necessary before I would venture to give a final and definite opinion.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I have wife and child at Emery Down,” quoth he; “I would not leave them for such a venture.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well now, while the ladies are in their rooms, I will venture down and get you something to eat.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Earlier I mentioned the possibility that you will be working with a partner on this new project or venture.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Oh, I would not venture to say, sir.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Whether these were private grounds, however, or bonâ-fide country was more than I could possibly venture to say.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Aren't you afraid to venture it up in this climate?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)