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A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
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An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen.
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The thing risked; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
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Examples of ventures in a Sentence
The success of these ventures prompted him to collect his poems in 1722.
These will be good ventures.
Discipline was not acquired at once, however, and the first ventures of the force were not very successful.
They used it to invest in apparently hopeless ventures or into business they knew little or nothing about.
Alain even ventures an immediate application of this principle, and tries to prove geometrically the dogmas defined in the Creed.
The settings for the work we'd been doing required more effort in keying in the location than the time as most of our ventures would take place in a forty-eight hour window.
In addition to his hip hop stylings, Dogg has also found success with several other ventures.
Our newest ventures have been a great success.
He repeated the feat at Tenedos in November of 1822, and was then considered to have disposed of nearly 4000 Turks in the two ventures.
It preys upon the smaller animals and inflicts much loss upon stock farmers through the destruction of calves, lambs, &c., but it very rarely ventures to attack man or any of the larger animals.
Although the great bulk of his writing was now in prose, he made after this date some of his most notable ventures in poetry.
The Boston traders - whose direct trade began in 1882, but the indirect ventures long before that - were men of decided influence in California.
Rapid settlement, excessive prices, reckless waste of money, and wild commercial ventures that glutted San Francisco with all objects usable and unusable made the following years astounding from an economic point of view; but not less bizarre was the social development, nor less extraordinary the problems of state-building in a society " morally and socially tried as no other American community ever has been tried " (Royce).
Up to 1505 the Portuguese voyages to the East were little more than trading ventures or plundering raids, although a few " factories " for the exchange of goods were and Alba= founded in Malabar.
The great repute of Achin as a place of trade is shown by the fact that to this port the first Dutch (1599) and first English (1602) commercial ventures to the Indies were directed.
Many of his paternal ventures led to little more than waste of money, or the creation of hotbeds of jobbery.
Another appreciable source of revenue to Edward was his private commercial ventures.
His electioneering ventures, the friendly backing of bills, and his own expense in keeping up appearances, had loaded him with debt.
A strong point in favour of some of the British companies has been that their undertakings have been practically extensions of existing British colonies rather than entirely isolated ventures.
Prior to the information wars, GM had linked its computer system with several other automakers to keep several joint ventures running smoothly.
The result has been the growth of a series of ventures, which now together make a substantial contribution to University statistics.
With great foresight, the new Republic opened the market to foreign mining ventures.
Have, for example, all your business ventures borne lavish fruit too?
These new ventures enabled the whole school community to be actively involved in attaining the nationally recognized advanced Healthy Schools Award in November 2004.
More recent industrial ventures have included the building of Scotland's largest grain distillery on the site of an old shipyard in 1938.
Sandals ventures into the spa business, offering a world-class, full-service European spa.
The importance of university spinoff activity is discussed and the historical development of university spinoff ventures is traced over time.
I have lost count of the number of internet travel ventures and airline start-ups that have never got off the ground.
All of this income is generated through fundraising ventures such as the Asics Reading Half Marathon.
Serials Review Examples of recent collaborative ventures between the two libraries include the Serials Review project funded by SHEFC under the Regional Strategic Initiative.
The private sector performance in co-operative ventures has also not reached the desired level in some of the economic sectors.
However, the more entrepreneurial ventures are easy to spot.
Perhaps future ecotourism ventures will enable viewing of the animals with an expert guide.
Experience in M&A, MBO/MBI, IPOs, joint ventures, private equity and/or venture capital work is preferred.
Hedge funds, EIS, taper relief have created a perfect storm of private wealth to invest in more risky ventures.
More recent industrial ventures have included the building of Scotland 's largest grain distillery on the site of an old shipyard in 1938.
Contact Mike Edge Joint Ventures Specialist advice on joint venturing in property transactions, advising on vehicle structuring, asset management and taxation implications.
Here they will lurk waiting to attack any unwary fish that ventures too close.
As you probably are all too well aware, anarchy can reign during entrepreneurial ventures.
Sidewalk chalk is among the safest ventures you can take to help your child investigate his artistic potential.
Depth Sounders - Gives precise ocean depth readings to assist with fishing ventures.
Be present when the new cat ventures out to meet the other pets, but don't intervene unless fur actually flies.
It will teach her where her litter box is and it will help her get used to her new surroundings on a small scale before she ventures into the bigger house.
Are starting new financial ventures that require significant organization, such as purchasing a franchise or starting a new business.
With all the multiple creative ventures Paris has undertaken with great success, it is no surprise her perfume would be one of the many flourishing business creations attached to her name.
This is true of her ventures into both fashion and fragrance.
Paris' income isn't confined to her entertainment ventures.
In 1997, she formed Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, a catchall company to reign in all of the various projects, media and marketing ventures bearing Stewart's name.
The media and employees at her business ventures wondered what would happen to the Stewart empire due to the prison scandal.
Additionally, her artistic pursuits will keep Seymour busy with several business ventures, including her "Paint with Jane Starter Kits", as well as the Jane Seymour Botanicals collection.