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Chance I Chanced Opportunity Electoral Council Announced Eligible

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If you have a c_____ to do something, you have the opportunity to do it.If you have a chance to do something, you have the opportunity to do it.
The electoral council announced that all eligible people would get a chance to vote.
I felt I had to give him a chance.
word chance
full-definition
noun
If there is a chance of something happening, it is possible that it will happen.
Do you think they have a chance of beating Australia?
This partnership has a good chance of success.
The specialist who carried out the brain scan thought Tim's chances of survival were still slim.
There was really very little chance that Ben would ever have led a normal life.
If you have a chance to do something, you have the opportunity to do it.
The electoral council announced that all eligible people would get a chance to vote.
I felt I had to give him a chance.
adjective
A chance meeting or event is one that is not planned or expected .
...a chance meeting.
...a victim of chance and circumstance.
verb
If you chance to do something or chance on something, you do it or find it although you had not planned or tried to.
A man I chanced to meet proved to be a most unusual character.
It was just then that I chanced to look round.
They once holidayed in Rome and chanced upon a bar called The Seamus Heaney.
If you chance something, you do it even though there is a risk that you may not succeed or that something bad may happen.
Andy knew the risks. I cannot believe he would have chanced it.
He decided no assassin would chance a shot from amongst that crowd.
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