Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Risk of loss or injury; peril or danger.
- n. Law A defendant's risk or danger of conviction when put on trial.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An even chance; a game evenly balanced.
- n. Exposure to death, loss, or injury; hazard; danger; peril. A person is in legal jeopardy, within the constitutional protection against being put twice in Jeopardy for the same offense, when he is put upon trial, before a court of competent jurisdiction, upon indictment or information which is sufficient in form and substance to sustain a conviction, and a jury has been sworn, unless such jury, without having rendered a verdict, were discharged for good cause (or, according to some authorities, by absolute necessity), or by the consent of the accused.
- n. Synonyms Peril, etc. See danger and risk.
- To jeopardize: as, he jeopardied his fame.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Exposure to death, loss, or injury; hazard; danger.
- v. rare To jeopardize.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
Etymologies
- From Middle English jepardie, from Old French jeu parti ("a divided game, i.e. an even game, an even chance"), from Medieval Latin iocus partītus ("an even chance, an alternative"), from Latin iocus ("jest, play, game") + partītus, perfect passive participle of partiō ("divide"); see joke and party. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English juperti, from Old French jeu parti, even game, uncertainty : jeu, game (from Latin iocus, joke, game; see yek- in Indo-European roots) + parti, past participle of partir, to divide (from Latin partīre, from pars, part-, part; see part). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The use of having a baby in jeopardy is a cheap trick but it works.”
“The balance of the game is in jeopardy from the Premiership ball which allows kickers regularly to land 60-yard penalties”
The Guardian: Balls of fire risk extinguishing wow factor from long-range kicks
“States and other sources provide significant funding for legal services as well, but one of the most important sources of funding for low-income legal services could be in jeopardy from the Roberts Court.”
Wonk Room » Report: Legal Needs Of The Poor Unmet Over 80% Of The Time
“Because the idea of Obama's physical safety's being in jeopardy is NOT just something Black folk who've been around a while talk about.”
“Some private developers say the number of projects in jeopardy is much higher, perhaps as much as 80%.”
“Ellen (played by Bree Turner), the young woman in jeopardy, is far from helpless and at times behaves more like predator than prey.”
“O Emir, of a truth, we are in jeopardy from the multitude of the foe who is on the walls.”
“Also in jeopardy is the Saturday night women's final as some fourth-round matches have yet to be completed.”
“So to the extent that Novaya Gazeta is itself in jeopardy, that is deeply troubling.”
Voice of America: Russia Press Freedom Narrows With Newsweek Closure
“Not only are they fighting a complicated war; they're also putting themselves directly in jeopardy at every turn, which makes for thrilling viewing.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘jeopardy’.
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probablyankita's list
Words are all I have to take your heart away
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JURI - courtroom speak
Legal glossary with special focus on courtroom vocabulary
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Words That Have Lost All Meaning
Words that, if you stare at them long enough, they cease to look like real words.
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lucidityprevails's Words
lucidity, journalistic, truthiness, foolhardy, egotism, lesbian, orgasmic, activism, moonglow, voodoo, conquer, demolish and 534 more...
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phil vocab 2
tribunal, inculcation, confounds, indisputable, susceptible, faculty, hypothetical, heterogeneous, homogeneous, convention, fluctuation, incontinent and 38 more...
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Silent vowels
jeopardy, people, leopard, plague, guess, guest, guard, guitar, guilty, rogue, vogue, build and 2 more...
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rolig Could you put that in the form of a question, Q? May 22, 2009
qroqqa Huh. I always thought this was a Law French term, containing the pronoun jeo "I", as indeed jeofail is. But no, it's in effect jeu parti "divided game", a situation in games such as chess. May 22, 2009
sionnach I understand this phenomenon, which happens to me with certain words as well. But in the case of "jeopardy", I think there is a relatively straightforward remedy. Think how dangerous it would be to be stuck in a room with a bunch of leopards. You'd be all leopardy and definitely in jeopardy. May 22, 2009
bilby I completely lost the shape of this word today. Took me ten goes to spell it correctly. Even then the right version was starting to look creepy so I replaced it in the text with another word. May 22, 2009