ventures
USVEN-churz/ˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚz/UKVEN-chuhz/ˈvɛn.t͡ʃəz/
- 1Plural of venture.
Investors lost money on a string of failed mining ventures.
Her later ventures focused on renewable energy and clean transport.
Note
One spelling, two jobs: as a noun it counts risky undertakings, commercial or exploratory, and the same form is also the verb's third-person present, as in she ventures out alone. Context tells them apart. The noun has a trader's meaning worth knowing: a merchant's ventures could be the goods themselves, the things risked when sent to sea, rather than the voyage that carried them.
ventures is a form of venture
venture, noun: A daring or risky undertaking, especially a business project or a journey into the unknown. Full entry
- Forms
- ventureventures plural
- Spelling
- venture → ventures: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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