Usually means: Potential source of danger, risk.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. hazard: Merriam-Webster
  2. hazard: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hazard: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hazard: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hazard: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hazard, hazard: Wordnik
  7. hazard: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Hazard, hazard: Wiktionary
  9. hazard: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hazard: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hazard: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hazard: Dictionary.com
  13. hazard: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hazard: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. HAZARD, Hazard (DC Comics), Hazard (computer architecture), Hazard (disambiguation), Hazard (game), Hazard (golf), Hazard (logic), Hazard (risk), Hazard (ship), Hazard (song), Hazard (surname), Hazard: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hazard: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hazard: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hazard: Rhymezone
  19. hazard: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hazard: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. hazard: FreeDictionary.org
  22. hazard: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. hazard: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. hazard: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. hazard: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. hazard: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Hazard: Disaster Management
  5. hazard: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hazard (computer architecture), hazard: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. hazard: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hazard: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Earthquake Image Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hazard: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. hazard: Golfer's Dictionary
  3. Hazard: Sports Definitions

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Hazard: Latitude Mexico
  3. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See hazarded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
noun:  An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
noun:  (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
noun:  (historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
noun:  Chance.
noun:  (obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
noun:  (tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served.
noun:  (programming) 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.
verb:  To expose to chance; to take a risk.
verb:  To risk (something); to venture, incur, or bring on.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A home rule city, the county seat of Perry County, Kentucky, United States.

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