hazard

/ˈhazəd//ˈhæzɚd/

noun

1
The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
“He encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.”
2
An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
“The video game involves guiding a character on a skateboard past all kinds of hazards.”
3
(in driving a vehicle) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
4
A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
5
The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
6
A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
7
Chance.
8
Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
9
The side of the court into which the ball is served.
10
A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.

1
To expose to chance; to take a risk.
2
To risk (something); to venture, to incur, or bring on.
“I'll hazard a guess.”

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