gamble
verb /ˈɡæm.bl̩/Definition
› [I] to do something that involves risks that might result in loss of money or failure, hoping to get money or achieve success: Anyone who gambles on the stock exchange has to be prepared to lose money.Taking risksGambling and bookmaking C2 [I or T] to risk money, for example in a game or on a horse race: I like to gamble when I play cards - it makes it more interesting. He gambles on the horses (= horse races). He gambled away all of our savings.Gambling and bookmakingTaking risks
(Definition of gamble verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- a drowning man will clutch at a straw idiom
- a leap in the dark idiom
- adventurer noun
- be skating on thin ice idiom
- chance your arm idiom
- flirt with sth phrasal verb (DANGER)
- gamble on sth phrasal verb
- go for broke idiom
- have/put your head on the block idiom
- hazard verb
- play chicken idiom
- play with fire idiom
- pull a stunt idiom
- put your head over/above the parapet idiom
- put/lay sth on the line idiom
- stick your neck out idiom
- take your life in your hands idiom
- tempt fate/providence idiom
- up the ante idiom
- venture on/upon sth phrasal verb
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Taking risks
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