chance
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~ be the case by chance; "I chanced to meet my old friend in the street"
chance
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~ take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; "When you buy these stocks you are gambling"
chance
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~ occurring or appearing or singled out by chance; "seek help from casual passers-by"; "a casual meeting"; "a chance occurrence"
chance
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~ the possibility of future success; "his prospects as a writer are excellent"
chance
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~ an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another; "bad luck caused his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance"
chance
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~ a risk involving danger; "you take a chance when you let her drive"
chance
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~ 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 probability that an unbiased coin will fall with the head up is 0.5"; "if that phone call is for me, chances are it's my wife"
chance
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~ a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances; "the holiday gave us the opportunity to visit Washington"; "now is your chance"
chanceful
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~ of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk; "an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog"- New Yorker
chancel
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~ area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing
chancellery
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~ a government building housing the office of a chancellor
chancellor
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~ the honorary or titular head of a university
chancellor
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~ the person who is head of government (in several countries)
chancellor
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~ the British cabinet minister responsible for finance
chancellorship
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~ the office of chancellor
chancellorsville
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~ a village in northeastern Virginia
Chancellorsville
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~ a major battle in the American Civil War (1863); the Confederates under Robert E. Lee defeated the Union forces under Joseph Hooker
chancery
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~ a court with jurisdiction in equity
chancery
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~ an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records
chancre
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~ a small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis)