0 present participle of jeopardize
1 to put something such as a plan or system in danger of being harmed or damaged:
But they may also invade our minds, obscuring what was called the common clinical sense, thus jeopardizing our ability to make the right diagnosis.
We know that material progress depends upon both cooperation and innovation and that each of these needs the other while jeopardizing the other.
These largely syllabic textures and regular text structures allowed scribes to present the songs in non-rhythmic notation without jeopardizing the utility of their copies.
Instead, we concentrate on outlining how co-payments should be designed to avoid severely jeopardizing the goals of health insurance.
Several developing countries may be reluctant to take the lead in raising their environmental standards for fear of jeopardizing their comparative advantage.
Often their choice is to compromise, coming as close as they can to their true policy preference without jeopardizing their standing with their constituents.
But no one has provided evidence of what additional information could be made permissible at a polling station without jeopardizing the electoral process.
In the social imagination, the sewer opened up the drawing room to these destabilizing forces, jeopardizing the very existence of purity in the urban context.
