take a chance

Questions about take a chance

What does take a chance mean?

take a chance means "take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome".

What is another word for take a chance?

Close synonyms include gamble, chance, risk, hazard, take chances. 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 take a chance a common word?

take a 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.