A favorable set of circumstances; an opportunity: a chance to escape.
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A force assumed to cause events that cannot be foreseen or controlled; luck: Chance will determine the outcome.
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A risk or hazard; a gamble: took a chance that the ice would hold me.
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An accidental or unpredictable event.
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Baseball An opportunity to make a putout or an assist that counts as an error if unsuccessful.
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verb-intransitive
To come about by chance; occur: It chanced that the train was late that day.
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verb-transitive
To take the risk or hazard of: not willing to chance it.
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verb
To take place, come about, or turn out by chance .
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To have the good or bad luck .
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To come or light by chance .
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To leave the outcome of to chance.
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To accept the hazard of .
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idiom
By chance Possibly; perchance: Is he, by chance, her brother?.
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By chance Without plan; accidentally: They met by chance on a plane.
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On the off chance In the slight hope or possibility.
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