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Перевод: chancy

[прилагательное]
рискованный; неопределенный; счастливый; удачный

Тезаурус:

1. Not only is this kind of personalityscreening process likely to be chancy and unreliable, but - if change and initiative is the goal - downright counterproductive.
2. Changes in staff, changes in curriculum and increasing external demands making planning a chancy business.
3. She was only half Jersey, and that half did not include her temper, which was chancy and morose.
4. It would have been too chancy and too tiring a journey for her to have taken by the complicated network of bus connections, with its many waits, and there was her luggage.
5. Getting to Cape Wrath is rather chancy.
6. Most of the time sensible princes deliberately took steps to avoid so chancy a business.
7. Increasing human happiness? another chancy one that.
8. Discovering the remnants of the supernovae of the past is a chancy business.
9. This is picture-by-picture finance, depending on such chancy things as the tastes of producers and directors, or a type of story in vogue at the moment (a spy boom brings filmmakers to Europe; a Western boom could drive them home).
10. One immediately obvious solution is just to expand your core until you have an entire army, ignoring all the least reliable and more chancy troops altogether.
11. To a publisher or bookseller working hard to make a living in a very chancy occupation time spent answering questions from a researcher who has never himself worked in a commercial business may seem to be time wasted.
12. Your application for a further grant from our endowment funds comes to committee next month, as you know, and as I told you when you first mooted it, the chances are - well, chancy."
13. Lawyers already informally take on certain winners on this basis, and the reward proposed - a small uplift on normal fees - will not induce them to accept chancy cases.