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Definitions for Jeopardy
[1] hazard or risk of or exposure to loss, harm, death, or injury: For a moment his life was in jeopardy.
[2] peril or danger: The spy was in constant jeopardy of being discovered.
[3] Law . the danger or hazard of being found guilty, and of consequent punishment, undergone by criminal defendants on trial.
[4] danger of injury, loss, death, etc; risk; peril; hazard his health was in jeopardy
[5] law danger of being convicted and punished for a criminal offence See also double jeopardy
Words related to Jeopardy
peril, precariousness, accident, risk, liability, insecurity, vulnerability, hazard, endangerment, chance, venture, exposure
Words nearby Jeopardy
jensenism, jeon, jeopard, jeopardize, jeopardous, jeopardy, jephthah, jequirity, jequitinhonha, jequié, jer
Origin of Jeopardy
1200–50; Middle English j(e)uparti, joupardi(e ), j(e)upardi(e ) < Anglo-French, Old French: literally, divided game or play, hence, uncertain chance, problem (in chess or love), equivalent to j(e)u play, game (< Latin jocus joke) + parti, past participle of partir to divide; see party
Word origin for Jeopardy
C14: from Old French jeu parti, literally: divided game, hence uncertain issue, from jeu game, from Latin jocus joke, game + partir to divide, from Latin partīrī
Synonyms for Jeopardy
peril, accident, chance, endangerment, exposure, hazard, insecurity, liability, precariousness, risk, venture, vulnerability, double-trouble, on the line, on the spot, out on a limb