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Definition of Jeoparding
1. jeopard [v] - See also: jeopard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jeoparding
Literary usage of Jeoparding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Law Dictionary Containing Definitions of the Terms and Phrases of American by Henry Campbell Black (1910)
"... the sacrifice or jeoparding of important public interests or hampering the
legitimate activities of government or the transaction of public business, ..."
2. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association (1898)
"It is "yellow journalism" that at the present time is jeoparding the plans of
our military and naval departments by giving information to our enemies, ..."
3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1908)
"... unjustifiable extension of the manufacturing provision to an incidental,
non-essential part of a printed book, seriously jeoparding property right. SEC. ..."
4. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1880)
"... State judge for his disobedience to a writ, which could not have been obeyed
without jeoparding the interests of his command and the safety of the city. ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... by upsetting the relations of Church and State as they were then understood,
by jeoparding the relations of his kingdoms with foreign powers, ..."
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