amerikai:
brit:
1. An opportunity or possibility.
We had the chance to meet the president last week.
2. Random occurrence; luck.
Why leave it to chance when a few simple steps will secure the desired outcome?
3. The probability of something happening.
There is a 30 percent chance of rain tomorrow.
4. What befalls or happens to a person; their lot or fate.
1. To happen by chance, to occur.
It chanced that I found a solution the very next day.
2. To befall; to happen to.
3. To try or risk.
Shall we carry the umbrella, or chance a rainstorm?
4. To discover something by chance.
He chanced upon a kindly stranger who showed him the way.
5. (Belize) To rob, cheat or swindle someone.
The car broke down a week after I bought it. I was chanced by that fast-talking salesman.