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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jeopardise.

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Examples

  • In the east of England, the report issues a red alert because the transition to the coalition's view of the NHS "may destabilise existing services if we fail to identify commissioning arrangements in the new system and/or if lack of capacity jeopardises continuity".

    NHS shakeup in danger of harming patients, risk assessments show 2011

  • Lawyers to argue at European court of human rights that government ban jeopardises women's health and wellbeing

    Abortion rule to be challenged in high court 2011

  • Currently the fund can only be used as a "last resort" to rescue a eurozone country whose plight jeopardises the stability of the euro as a whole.

    Bailed out – again. Eurozone throws Greece €109bn lifeline 2011

  • That's why executives at the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and Guardian are prepared to sign a letter to the business secretary, Vince Cable, calling for the purchase of Sky by News International to be referred to the broadcast regulator Ofcom on the grounds that it jeopardises the plural nature of Britain's media.

    Vince Cable must be bold and break Murdoch's stranglehold Henry Porter 2010

  • The reason for the embarrassment on my part is perhaps because I know that the industrialised country that I come from is a comparatively major polluter whose economy and thirst for economic growth jeopardises indirectly an ancient, simple way of life whose demands on the natural environment are almost zero.

    World's race for economic growth threatens Greenland's pure white wilderness 2011

  • The Lib Dem backbencher John Hemming is at the forefront of a campaign to challenge the courts, in a way that jeopardises the fragile relationship between them and parliament.

    Superinjunctions: The rich man's gag | Editorial 2011

  • The OECD says: "There is a general belief that the emphasis on examinations jeopardises the genuine development of young people and is detrimental ... but few effective solutions have emerged to reduce or minimise examination pressures."

    English pupils' reading ability falls behind Shanghai peers, report finds 2011

  • However much she may enjoy their gaudy nights, she is less enamoured of him by day: one of Cattrall's best moments is her look of disgusted horror when the defeated Antony, burying himself in her lap, jeopardises her possible alliance with Caesar by ordering his messenger to be whipped.

    Antony and Cleopatra - review Michael Billington 2010

  • Moreover, the financial threat inherent in the 'master plan' jeopardises Ethiopia's political economy further as HIPC debt cancelation stipuates that loans must be directly linked to poverty reduction.

    Khadija Sharife: East Africa's Looming Famine - Gibe III 2010

  • They play a happy couple who have settled into a routine but not in a way that in any way jeopardises their relationship or at least not one that the odd argument would not clear up.

    Date Night | FreakyTrigger 2010

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