joint venture
venture
verb
uk /ˈventʃər/us
[ I+ adverb/prep ]
to start a new activity, start thinking in a new way, or start doing an activity in a new place:
venture into sthThere are some excellent deals for new investors venturing into the electronic marketplace.
Meanwhile, the insurer has ventured beyond insurance with the launch of its first unsecured personal loan last week.
The company has finally decided to venture overseas.
[ T ]
to say something when it is risky to do this:
venture a guess/opinion/judgementI don't have enough knowledge to venture a judgement.
I was too shy to venture a comment.

Examples of venture

venture
It has also created a system where getting into politics is a business venture, with business plans and an expected rate of return on investment.
Such an analysis was more subversive in thinkers who ventured to apply it to the internal structure of the state.
This introduction sets out the underlying assumptions of this venture and provides readers with an analytical framework.
Initially, he worked on a small garden nursery venture begun by his energetic father, who was primarily a postmaster and shopkeeper.
The venture of faith is an act of trust, or of entrusting oneself, in the light of what is believed.
One makes a doxastic venture when one takes to be true a proposition that one believes, while recognizing that one lacks sufficient supportive evidence.
To the extent we were linked with them in that joint venture, their history is ours and ours theirs.
Indeed, they could have been even more ambitious and ventured further into the territory of development beyond the age of four years.
She is spatially bound in her leisure activities and seldom ventures to unfamiliar places by herself.
For, serious doubts may be raised about the viability of the doxastic venture model.
Under the stimulus of quantum mechanics, the independent discoverers were each venturing into what turned out to be new territory for both disciplines.
One values being trusted oneself, merely because one wants to be included in co-operative ventures on terms that are advantageous.
At the other, the literal level exists merely as a pro-forma excuse for a venture whose point resides in the second meaning.
Of course these moments are a crucial aspect of our delight, and can be a rich source for interpretative ventures.
If the social norms hinder women from venturing into public places such as markets, cashin-hand may actually be less useful than help in kind.
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Collocations withventure

venture

These are words often used in combination with venture.

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collaborative venture
Consequently, a collaborativeventure was initiated to begin to address this question.
commercial venture
First, if less environmentally destructive alternative economic activities are commercially viable, why is international funding needed in order to launch a commercialventure?
cooperative venture
This was a cooperativeventure of farmers, with a membership of 20,000 individuals.
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