2. Verb. (third-person singular of chance) ¹
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Definition of Chances
1. chance [v] - See also: chance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chances
Literary usage of Chances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"The chances are many against that anecdote occurring to me at that ... The chances
were very many against the minister being taken ill in the course of the ..."
2. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1904)
"DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA CHAPTER XIX THE chances OF THE DURATION OF THE UNION What
the chances are in favour of the duration of the American Union, ..."
3. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1858)
"86.41 Traders 46.35 THE chances OF LIFE, ... in relation to life and its chances,
were given in a paper that was some time since read by Dr. Barton, ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1888)
"200 chances. 100 do. 40 do. 20 do. 4 do. 125903 1 do. The chances, not the Tickets,
will be numbered for drawing, and all the Numbers will be put into the ..."
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