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Meaning of venture in English:

venture

Pronunciation /ˈvɛntʃə/

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noun

  • 1A risky or daring journey or undertaking.

    ‘pioneering ventures into little-known waters’
    • ‘‘This was always a risky venture but it has been done in style thanks to the dedication and commitment of all involved,’ he said.’
    • ‘I still think I'm right, but it's probably too risky a venture.’
    • ‘Allowing bloggers be the reviewers is potentially a risky venture, depending on how powerful you think blogs really are.’
    • ‘Doubts about the success of such a risky venture were soon put on the backburner as cinemagoers thronged to cinema halls.’
    • ‘This, like for every drug discovery in the world, is also a risky venture with dubious chances of success.’
    • ‘For such a risky venture, the reasons for straying outside that safety zone of London is to pick-up more fans.’
    • ‘Collins said the venture is potentially risky but the time is right to study the possibility.’
    • ‘Sometimes those test cases are, by their very nature, very, very risky ventures.’
    • ‘As a result Hollywood tries to avoid any risky ventures and is keen to fund tried and tested genres.’
    • ‘Presenting this sketch as a public performance in Belfast, Mayne remembers, was ‘a daring venture.’’
    • ‘It seemed a risky venture: print-runs had to be huge and cheap paper was used.’
    • ‘I came up with the idea at a venture capitalist firm.’
    • ‘While Billie's acting career is forging ahead, Chris' latest TV ventures have flopped.’
    • ‘Your bold nature will make you undertake risky ventures.’
    • ‘The withdrawal of Old School Baptists allowed missionary Baptist associations to pursue cooperative ventures.’
    • ‘Now, in his first solo venture, he faces a daunting task.’
    • ‘She walked through the door on the opening night of his first solo venture back in 1978.’
    • ‘Several white European women shared the results of their ventures into African territory.’
    • ‘Grateful thanks was extended to all who put so much work into bringing the venture to fruition.’
    • ‘But you shouldn't mix up the venture failing with the person failing.’
    expedition, adventure, journey, voyage, trek, travels, odyssey, wandering, journeying, exploration, venture, search, undertaking
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    1. 1.1A business enterprise, typically one that involves risk.
      ‘a joint venture between two aircraft manufacturers’
      • ‘Wait for clarity and totality before starting a new business venture.’
      • ‘He's starting a new business venture here.’
      • ‘The goals of Bard's collaborative ventures were established jointly with our partners abroad.’
      • ‘Thanks to all who so generously supported the fund-raising venture.’
      • ‘Life insurance became a profitable commercial venture provided by firms such as the Prudential.’
      • ‘The gimmick is part of the company's latest venture to target the UK's 3.2m students in higher education.’
      • ‘Ms Browning's latest venture involves the launch of an organic fast food truck, called the Flying Pig.’
      • ‘In today's overheated financial markets, euphoric investors are once again happily financing risky ventures.’
      • ‘She started her entrepreneurial venture three years ago, distributing chocolates to her friends and acquaintances.’
      • ‘Find out how the most successful e-commerce ventures help customers help themselves.’
      • ‘They simply change employers or pursue entrepreneurial ventures.’
      • ‘Lately, successful joint ventures with foreign partners produce consumer goods.’
      • ‘After all, the time to get in on an e-commerce venture has come and gone.’
      • ‘One can turn his ideas into profitable ventures with the use of 3D.’
      • ‘Last year, analysts were putting a valuation of e150 million on the business-to-business e-commerce venture.’
      • ‘The money was not paid under the terms of the joint venture agreement.’
      • ‘Others say they might invest in an Internet venture and its stock shoots up.’
      • ‘The competition was more like those run by government agencies or major foundations than an agile start-up venture.’
      • ‘His Honour made a finding that this venture failed very soon after inception in 1990.’
      • ‘They're government agencies that use public money to underwrite risky private ventures.’
      enterprise, undertaking, project, scheme, pursuit, operation, endeavour, campaign, activity, act, deed, move, measure, task, exploit, mission, adventure, trial
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verb

  • 1no object, with adverbial Undertake a risky or daring journey or course of action.

    ‘she ventured out into the blizzard’
    • ‘He of course, ventured out there everyday, occasionally dragging Amina along.’
    • ‘I really knew I'd made progress when I ventured out the gate and down the trail aboard Topper.’
    • ‘I ventured out to the grocery store and it was nearly deserted.’
    • ‘Chris even ventured out and tried his skipping skills while he was timed by 1983 world athletics champion, Eamon Coughlan.’
    • ‘Later on that night, I ventured out with my friends to Dupont Circle.’
    • ‘The course ended on a windy Friday night when some adventurous sailors ventured out for a ‘plane’ across the bay.’
    • ‘Last Wednesday, wearing several layers of Factor 60 and a large hat, I ventured out, keeping to the shade whenever I could.’
    • ‘And then, somewhat shamefacedly, I ventured out into the garden.’
    • ‘Only the college hostel girls ventured out to buy snacks.’
    • ‘Up until last Sunday, only 76 runners had ventured out of Warren Place, just 13 returning with a win under their belts.’
    • ‘Ash went to bed and we ventured out into Manhattan.’
    • ‘I ventured out tonight, and made a few comments here and there.’
    • ‘And after the agitation started they never even ventured out.’
    • ‘That seems a little extreme to me, but I decided that I would try this out while I ventured out on yet another first date last night.’
    • ‘After the long weekend's excess, it was only the dedicated disciples of dance that ventured out this cold and frosty night.’
    • ‘Essex Green is really poppy and cute and sometimes ventures into trippy alt-country territory.’
    • ‘Her prescription - substituting therapy for justice - ventures into dangerous moral territory.’
    • ‘The venture aims to open five to 10 stores per year.’
    • ‘As she moved from the cave, her head slowly ventured out into the sunlight.’
    • ‘Occasional gunfire could be heard in the streets, and few British soldiers ventured out of their Warrior and Challenger II tanks.’
    travel, journey, go, move, proceed, progress, set out, set forth, rove
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    1. 1.1with object Expose to the risk of loss.
      ‘agents for other people's money, they do not venture their own capital’
      • ‘The general point that emerges from these thought experiments is that much may be ventured, at great risk, for very small gains.’
      • ‘No one would venture such capital without some chance of generating a return on investment.’
      • ‘If a man is venturing his own money, this is the only risk which is relevant.’
      • ‘For an investment bank expert in venture capital, nothing has been ventured here and nothing gained.’
      • ‘Kerry compounded the problem by venturing no information about his public career in the Senate for the past two decades.’
      bet, wager, gamble, stake, hazard, risk, chance, venture
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  • 2no object, with infinitive Dare to do or say something that may be considered audacious (often used as a polite expression of hesitation or apology)

    ‘may I venture to add a few comments?’
    • ‘he ventured the opinion that Putt was insane’
    • ‘Apparently not, or so I was told by my wife before I had even ventured to express an opinion or a comment on the subject.’
    • ‘Dare I venture to ‘guesstimate’ a not inconsiderable number!’
    • ‘Ever noticed how a woman is ignored if she dares to venture an opinion on the weekend's football game?’
    • ‘I am venturing to write you this email for introducing our company as one of the professional exporters of car audio from China.’
    • ‘Accountants on the other hand stick to the letter of the detail, rarely venturing even informed opinions.’
    • ‘Which is why I am venturing to write this column on last week's encounter in Ahmedabad.’
    • ‘She ventures a few speculations about the woman with whom he likely had a long relationship.’
    • ‘If he were a betting man, he would venture a wager that she was uncomfortable with the position she was now in where it came to him.’
    • ‘Part travel log, part art history primer, it elegantly provides the context for Klett's life's work without venturing much in the way of criticism.’
    • ‘I remember overhearing them speaking French to one another and venturing a ‘bonjour.’’
    • ‘I'm venturing a guess that most of those people would swap that for having insulting signs written on their bodies any day.’
    • ‘And she ventures a few guesses on why it's not happened thus far.’
    • ‘Occasionally, Ducros - who is French - quietly ventures a suggestion about some nuance of diction.’
    • ‘He ventures the notion of ‘publicisation’ to rival the Tories' privatisation project.’
    • ‘Stephen even ventures the possibility of a change of name and even in its remit of building a knowledge economy.’
    • ‘Without abandoning her earlier assessment of Jeff Tweedy's performance, she ventured a more complex answer.’
    • ‘Again, no one has ventured a coherent explanation of this theory, let alone bothered to hint at what the evidence for it might be.’
    • ‘We ventured a guess that it was a ‘long shot’ at the time but our loyal readers have come to the rescue yet again.’
    • ‘I ventured that science, research and technology are the only things which will get us out of the hole we're very likely digging even now.’
    • ‘We ventured a guess that she wasn't off to moderate a ‘Successful Selling Schemes’ seminar.’
    put forward, volunteer, advance, submit, proffer, offer, air, bring up, suggest, propound, posit, propose, moot, ventilate, broach, lodge, introduce, put up, present
    dare, make so bold as, be so bold as, presume, have the temerity, have the effrontery, have the audacity, have the nerve, be brave enough, have the courage, go so far as
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Phrases

    at a venture
    archaic

    • Trusting to chance rather than to previous consideration or preparation.

      ‘a man drew a bow at a venture’
      • ‘And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness.’
      • ‘So he went down the staircase at a venture, without any idea where to go.’
    nothing ventured, nothing gained
    proverb

    • You can't expect to achieve anything if you never take any risks.

      ‘What did I say about nothing ventured, nothing gained?’
      • ‘Still, nothing ventured, nothing gained, and we took the day off to get lunch at IKEA and buy another pack of gummy anti-slip mesh stuff.’
      • ‘However, nothing ventured, nothing gained, I hunted around to see if I could find either one of my two watercolour boxes.’
      • ‘It is a shot in the dark, but nothing ventured, nothing gained.’
      • ‘‘It's a case of nothing ventured, nothing gained,’ Simon said.’
      • ‘Better to be safe than sorry, but nothing ventured, nothing gained.’
      • ‘Let us try to go into some of the principles anyway, remembering that nothing ventured, nothing gained.’
      • ‘I know you always thought it was too risky, but nothing ventured, nothing gained, eh?’

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘adventure’, also ‘risk the loss of’): shortening of adventure.