chance

(countable)An opportunity or possibility.

We had the chance to meet the president last week: we have a good/strong chance of making / to make a profit.

There was a fat/slim chance that my letter would arrive in time.

If you get the chance, try and catch the new production of "Hamlet."

(uncountable)Random occurrence; luck.

Why leave it to chance when a few simple steps will secure the desired outcome?

My whole life seems to be ruled by blind chance.

Đồng nghĩa: fortune, hap, adventure, accident, casualty, chance, chance-medley, fortune, hap, hazard, joss, luck, serendipity, weird

(countable)The probability of something happening.

There is a 30 percent chance of rain tomorrow.

There is little chance of having the chance to approach such a big celeb.

(countable, plural, uncountable)(in plural as chances) probability; possibility.

Đồng nghĩa: eventuality, chance, contingency, contingent, eventuality, possibility, potentiality

(archaic, countable)What befalls or happens to a person; their lot or fate.

Đồng nghĩa: destiny, doom, chance, destin, destiny, doom, fatality, fate, foredoom, foreordination, fortune, kismet, lot, orlay, portion, predestination, predestiny, preordination, qadar, weird, wyrd

(not comparable)Happening by chance, casual.

(not comparable, obsolete)Perchance; perhaps.

(archaic, intransitive)To happen by chance, to occur.

It chanced that I found a solution the very next day.

(archaic, transitive)To befall; to happen to.

To try or risk.

Shall we carry the umbrella, or chance a rainstorm?

To discover something by chance.

He chanced upon a kindly stranger who showed him the way.

(Belize)To rob, cheat or swindle someone.

The car broke down a week after I bought it. I was chanced by that fast-talking salesman.

(Nigeria)To take an opportunity from someone; to cut a queue.