Hazard
Hazard is a condition with the potential to cause injury, illness, or death of personnel; damage to or loss of equipment or property; or mission degradation.
Webster Dictionary Meaning
1. Hazard
- A game of chance played with dice.- The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.
- Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
- Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
- Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming.
- To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk.
- To venture to incur, or bring on.
2. Hazard
- To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger. Category: Defense Terms
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