fair chance

1. 1.

   a reasonable probability of success

   Synonymssporting chance

   Broaderprobability

Questions about fair chance

What does fair chance mean?

fair chance means "a reasonable probability of success".

What is another word for fair chance?

Close synonyms include sporting chance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fair chance a common word?

fair chance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.