Synonyms for gamble
ˈgæm bəlgam·ble

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1. gamblenoun

   money that is risked for possible monetary gain

2. gambleverb

   a risky act or venture

3. gamble, chance, risk, hazard, take chances, adventure, run a risk, take a chanceverb

   take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome

   "When you buy these stocks you are gambling"

   Synonyms:
   pretend, encounter, happen, guess, run a risk, chance, bump, adventure, venture, hazard, jeopardize, stake, take chances, find, take a chance, put on the line, lay on the line, risk

4. gambleverb

   play games for money

   Synonyms:
   take a chance, run a risk, take chances, hazard, chance, adventure, risk

Matched Categories

1. • Play
   • Speculation

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1. gambleverb

   Synonyms:
   game, play for money, practise gaming

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1. List of paraphrases for "gamble":

   gambling, bet, wager, play, g, irap

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How to use gamble in a sentence?

1. Venki Ramakrishnan:

   People do not want to gamble with their careers when they have no sense of whether the UK will be willing and able to maintain its global scientific leadership.

2. Pasi Eronen:

   Capitulating to out-of-this-world demands would make overall situation much more dangerous, as it would just embolden Kremlin to act aggressively, moreover, China and other revisionists are watching the reaction to a Kremlin gamble.

3. Oscar Tabarez:

   There are more or less 200,000 boys playing football in Uruguay, of this only 0.14 percent may have a possibility of going to Europe, the parents are making the wrong gamble and we have to make them aware of these facts.

4. Elizabeth Warren:

   The House is about to vote on a budget deal -- a deal negotiated behind closed doors that slips in a provision that would let derivatives traders on Wall Street gamble with taxpayer money and get bailed out by the government when their risky bets threaten to blow up our financial system, these are the same banks that nearly broke the economy in 2008 and destroyed millions of jobs.

5. Oliviero Baccelli:

   A very strict regulation introduced in Europe has solved technology and security issues that hindered the privatisation of these companies... so it is not a gamble to list it.