Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To adjust according to principles of equity, as would be done by a court of chancery: as, to
chancer a forfeiture.
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- noun British slang An
opportunist
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Examples
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Crazytown tastic! ... andy: all i can find for the word chancer is a scheming individual. no french translation. they must b mad! ...
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Did you see the one where, James I think from the first series looked a cert for the final and then turned out that he was 'chancer' and could not stick at anything.
Living For The Weekend juliette 2009
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I still think this latter case is beyond what was envisaged and could be considered to be "chancer" behaviour - what Ashcroft/Flying Lion is doing is far more like giving cash, and the costs are disproportionate.
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As, under Blair's premiership, the UK has been reduced to the role of being an international 'chancer', our best strategy is probably to smile, back off and try to sell him a football club, a swanky townhouse or some hedge fund bonds.
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The families of two of serial killer Peter Tobin's victims have branded him a "chancer" after he missed another court appearance through illness.
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Mr Callely, who was banned from the Seanad for 20 days without pay for deliberately misrepresenting his normal place of residence to claim travel expenses, claimed he had been painted as a "chancer" and "a rogue" and "thoroughly despicable".
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These included such horrific insults as 'chancer', 'communist', 'corner boy' and 'yahoo'.
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In previous times he would have been called a wide boy, a chancer.
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I love the description “a wide boy, a chancer” because I have absolutely no idea what those expressions mean, and yet somehow they fit!
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But although I've long reckoned him to be a grade 1 careerist and a bit of a chancer, I've always strangely liked him, can appreciate his strengths, certainly his hard work, and at times his sheer balls when defending the indefensible.
Archive 2009-03-01 Alan Smart 2009
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