Definition of hazard Hazard

/hæˈzɚd/ - [hatzerd] - Haz•ard

We found 20 definitions of hazard from 6 different sources.

What does hazard mean?

Noun Plural: hazards
hazard - a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune; "drinking alcohol is a health hazard"
		jeopardy, peril, risk, endangerment
		danger a dangerous place; "He moved out of danger"
		health hazard hazard to the health of those exposed to it
		moral hazard (economics) the lack of any incentive to guard against a risk when you are protected against it (as by insurance); "insurance companies are exposed to a moral hazard if the insured party is not honest"
		occupational hazard any condition of a job that can result in illness or injury
hazard - an obstacle on a golf course
		obstacle an obstruction that stands in the way (and must be removed or surmounted or circumvented)
		golf course, links course course consisting of a large landscaped area for playing golf
		sand trap, bunker, trap a hazard on a golf course
hazard - 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"
		luck, fortune, chance
		phenomenon any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning
		mischance, mishap, bad luck an instance of misfortune

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hazard (Noun)
Chance.
hazard (Noun)
The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
hazard (Noun)
An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
hazard (Noun)
Sand or water obstacle on a golf course .
hazard (Verb)
To expose to chance; to take a risk.
hazard (Verb)
To incur or venture.

hazard (n.)
A game of chance played with dice.
hazard (n.)
The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.
hazard (n.)
Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
hazard (n.)
Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
hazard (n.)
Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming.
hazard (n.)
To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk.
hazard (n.)
To venture to incur, or bring on.
hazard (v. i.)
To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger.

hazard
A physical or chemical agent capable of causing harm to persons, property, animals, plants or other natural resources.

hazard
haz′ard, n. a game played with a dice-box and two dice by any number of players: chance: accident: risk: (billiards) the pocketing of the object ball (winning hazard), of the player's own ball after contact (losing hazard): (tennis) the side of the court into which the ball is served: (golf) a general term for all difficulties on a golf-links—bunkers, long grass, roads, water, whins, &c.—v.t. to expose to chance: to risk: to venture.—v.i. to run a risk.—adj. Haz′ardable.—n. Haz′ardise (Spens.), hazard.—adj. Haz′ardous, dangerous: perilous: uncertain.—adv. Haz′ardously.—ns. Haz′ardousness; Haz′ardry (Spens.), playing at games of hazard or chance: rashness; Chick′en-haz′ard, a game of chance with very small stakes. [O. Fr. hasard; prob. through the Sp. from Arab. al zār, the die; but Littré favours William of Tyre's derivation from Hasart, a castle in Syria, where the game was discovered during the Crusades.]

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hazard in sign language