chance
I took a chance when I gave you a job so please don't let me down.
Take a chance and try something different!
She took a chance on a relationship that could end in disaster.
They were taking no chances, and quarantined the entire building.
We want TV producers to take chances on new talent.
Most of us do this job because we enjoy taking chances.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Dangers and threats
balefully
baneful
banefully
black spot
hang
hang over something
hazard
hazardous
hazardously
non-lethal
on/under pain of deathidiom
or elseidiom
parlous
parlously
someone's bark is worse than his/her biteidiom
tombstoning
treacherously
triple threat
ultra-hazardous
venturesome