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hazard in English:

1. gambling


You need to stop gambling.
You've got to give up gambling once and for all.
You might as well throw your money away as spend it on gambling.
Once you get the taste for gambling, it's hard to give it up.
Gambling was by no means his only source of income.
You don't like gambling, do you?
Both my father and my brother are fond of gambling.
Gambling brought about his ruin.
Are you going to buy a lottery ticket? "I don't think I'm lucky at gambling."
Excessive gambling causes the same brain changes as a drug addiction.
Prostitution, gambling, the use of narcotic substances, drunkenness, disorder, and all other illegal activities are STRICTLY FORBIDDEN.
Gambling site lets users bet on which species will go extinct because of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
I'm not cut out for gambling. Maybe I'm just unlucky, but working for my pay is more of a sure thing.
Hatoyama says that he supports his family by gambling on horse racing.
He wasted his time on gambling at the horse races.

English word "hazard"(gambling) occurs in sets:

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2. something that could be dangerous or cause damage or accidents



English word "hazard"(something that could be dangerous or cause damage or accidents) occurs in sets:

Disinfectant wipes can be harmful
Disinfectant wipes can be harmful

3. a thing that can be dangerous



4. dangers or threats



English word "hazard"(dangers or threats) occurs in sets:

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5. danger


There's danger that the levee will break. We have to evacuate immediately.
The possibility of suffering harm or injury. A person or thing that is likely to cause harm or injury. Drought is a danger.
Danger ahead.
It is strange that a cameraman heading for a war-zone should not know about the danger of unexploded shells. The newspaper company is being negligent in its training.
I'd stop worrying about it and take some action. The anxiety that comes from doing nothing is worse than any danger you might face.
Many of the world's seven thousand or so languages are spoken only by handfuls of living people and are in danger of extinction.
If the demolition of buildings is uncontrolled, a fine city is in danger of becoming nothing more than a concrete jungle.
According to pernickety moderators, non-sentences constitute a mortal danger to Tatoeba.
There's also the danger of unexploded bombs, so they reported it to the police and the area was taped off to keep people out.
The danger of AIDS came home to me when I saw a documentary film on it last night.
On his return the chaste caresses of his wife amply recompenced the warrior for the fatigues he had undergone and for the danger which he had been exposed.
Are you creating for us a future world where there is a greater danger of skin cancer, weakened bodies, less food and fewer plants and animals?
If you're with me as a staff officer then I need you to bring a sense of danger with you to your work.

6. hazardous


The area is very hazardous because chemicals were spilt there.
All hazardous materials must be disposed of properly
Smoking is hazardous to your health
Firefighters work in very hazardous conditions.
It would be hazardous to invest so much.
We went on a hazardous journey across the desert.
Some of these chemicals can be hazardous to health.
It can be very hazardous to speed up in the city.
I reckon that desert islands [bezludna wyspa] are all potentially hazardous places.
This plastic garbage bag is free of hazardous chemicals.

7. risk


At this rate, the risk is high that our country's competitive position will drop even further.
I know that interest rates are fixed in accordance to the borrower's business risk.
at risk
It's a job worth doing, but if I think about the working hours and the risk ... I could be onto a real losing proposition here.
Risk all and gain all.
Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan, to risk their lives for us.
Calculating the risk which is involved in the event of failure, he demanded a show-down with the other party.
His style (if you were to call it that) was excessively (though I run the risk of hypocrisy) parenthetical (pardon the pun).
Risk money refers to funds placed in investments that seek high-return, although high-risk, investments.
However, it seems that just because it's a 'low risk day' doesn't mean that you won't get pregnant from intravaginal ejaculation.
I will risk drinking tea in Mrs Ewelina's house. Maybe I'll survive.
Some people's fear of flying is far out of proportion to the actual risk it involves.
Holding the Olympics where there's severe atmospheric pollution gives rise to a great risk for athletes.
Causing competitors to fail, obtaining confidential information, something that big business just can't do without - high risk but at the same time high return work.
Do you think she would risk her life... her son's life... if she wasn't certain her husband was murdered?