Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Risk of loss or injury; peril or danger.
- noun Law A defendant's risk or danger of conviction when put on trial.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To jeopardize: as, he jeopardied his fame.
- noun An even chance; a game evenly balanced.
- noun Exposure to death, loss, or injury; hazard; danger; peril.
- noun Synonyms Peril, etc. See
danger and risk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Exposure to death, loss, or injury; hazard; danger.
- transitive verb rare To jeopardize.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Danger ofloss ,harm , orfailure .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The use of having a baby in jeopardy is a cheap trick but it works.
Jackie K. Cooper: Paranormal Activity 2 : You Have to See the Original Movie First Jackie K. Cooper 2010
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States and other sources provide significant funding for legal services as well, but one of the most important sources of funding for low-income legal services could be in jeopardy from the Roberts Court.
Wonk Room » Report: Legal Needs Of The Poor Unmet Over 80% Of The Time 2009
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The balance of the game is in jeopardy from the Premiership ball which allows kickers regularly to land 60-yard penalties
Balls of fire risk extinguishing wow factor from long-range kicks Shaun Edwards 2010
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The use of having a baby in jeopardy is a cheap trick but it works.
Jackie K. Cooper: Paranormal Activity 2: You Have to See the Original Movie First Jackie K. Cooper 2010
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Because the idea of Obama's physical safety's being in jeopardy is NOT just something Black folk who've been around a while talk about.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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Because the idea of Obama's physical safety's being in jeopardy is NOT just something Black folk who've been around a while talk about.
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Some private developers say the number of projects in jeopardy is much higher, perhaps as much as 80%.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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Ellen (played by Bree Turner), the young woman in jeopardy, is far from helpless and at times behaves more like predator than prey.
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Ellen (played by Bree Turner), the young woman in jeopardy, is far from helpless and at times behaves more like predator than prey.
Flixnjoystix.com! » Bobert’s 31 Days Of Horror Marathon Begins Here! 2007
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O Emir, of a truth, we are in jeopardy from the multitude of the foe who is on the walls.
bilby commented on the word jeopardy
I completely lost the shape of this word today. Took me ten goes to spell it correctly. Even then the right version was starting to look creepy so I replaced it in the text with another word.
May 22, 2009
sionnach commented on the word jeopardy
I understand this phenomenon, which happens to me with certain words as well. But in the case of "jeopardy", I think there is a relatively straightforward remedy. Think how dangerous it would be to be stuck in a room with a bunch of leopards. You'd be all leopardy and definitely in jeopardy.
May 22, 2009
qroqqa commented on the word jeopardy
Huh. I always thought this was a Law French term, containing the pronoun jeo "I", as indeed jeofail is. But no, it's in effect jeu parti "divided game", a situation in games such as chess.
May 22, 2009
rolig commented on the word jeopardy
Could you put that in the form of a question, Q?
May 22, 2009
bilby commented on the word jeopardy
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May 22, 2009