0 present participle of chance --
1 to risk something: --
2 to happen or do something by chance: --
Ten years after leaving school, we chanced on/upon (= unexpectedly met) each other in Regent Street.
I chanced on/upon (= found unexpectedly) some old love letters in a drawer.
[ + to infinitive ] They chanced to be in the restaurant when I arrived.
The way in which we are proceeding will ensure that we can pilot new arrangements rather than chancing our arm with major untested changes without piloting and discussion.
Other nations in setting up their tariffs have drawn up a scale fairly high, and one which can be adjusted to the varied and the chancing circumstances.
If there was any drift to war, it might be, if it did arise, that it would be through someone's chancing their arm too far so to speak.
I may be chancing my arm in the context of some of the contributions to the debate.
I wish that he had accompanied that by "chancing his arm" in another direction.
I asked whether it was likely, but for my chancing to hear it, that would ever have been published.
We cannot always go on chancing it, seeing whether it is a success, and then having another try.
It needs only a minute proportion of people to do this to put on the spot shopkeepers who may be chancing their luck.
