Meaning

1 senses

  1. (idiomatic)To try something risky.

    He really took a gamble when he left his job to become a writer. But it paid off in the end.

    I took a gamble on my girlfriends' parents not being home and turned up without warning.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. You're taking a big gamble, aren't you?

    ruТы сильно рискуешь, верно? — odexed

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  2. You're taking a big gamble.

    ruТы крупно рискуешь. — sharptoothed

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  3. Sami took a deadly gamble.

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Forms

takes a gamble, taking a gamble, took a gamble, taken a gamble
Base formtake a gamble · to take a gamble
3rd person singulartakes a gamble
Present participletaking a gamble
Past simpletook a gamble
Past participletaken a gamble

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytake a gamble
he, she, ittakes a gamble

Past simpleLesson

all personstook a gamble

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave taken a gamble
he, she, ithas taken a gamble

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill take a gamble

Synonyms

4 synonyms
roll the dicetake a chancetake a flyertake a risk

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
tainttajtakeA1takeawayB1takeoffB1takeout
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