FAIR CHANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fair chance mean? 

• FAIR CHANCE (noun)
  The noun FAIR CHANCE has 1 sense:

1. a reasonable probability of success

  Familiarity information: FAIR CHANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAIR CHANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A reasonable probability of success

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

fair chance; sporting chance

Hypernyms ("fair chance" is a kind of...):

chance; probability (a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible)

 Context examples 

Now, are the circumstances of the country such, that a man of Mr. Micawber's abilities would have a fair chance of rising in the social scale?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Give 'm a fair chance, an' if he don't deliver the goods, I'll kill 'm myself. There!

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It would not be a great match for Henrietta, but Charles has a very fair chance, through the Spicers, of getting something from the Bishop in the course of a year or two; and you will please to remember, that he is the eldest son; whenever my uncle dies, he steps into very pretty property.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)