"stand a chance" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-stand a chance.ogg [Australia] Forms: stands a chance [present, singular, third-person], standing a chance [participle, present], stood a chance [participle, past], stood a chance [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|stand<,,stood> a chance}} stand a chance (third-person singular simple present stands a chance, present participle standing a chance, simple past and past participle stood a chance)
  1. (idiomatic) To have a chance. Tags: idiomatic Translations (have a chance): 有機會 (english: have an opportunity) (Chinese Mandarin), 有机会 (yǒu jīhuì) (Chinese Mandarin), 有可能性 (yǒu kěnéngxìng) (english: have a possibility) (Chinese Mandarin), 有希望 (yǒu xīwàng) (english: have a hope) (Chinese Mandarin), olla mahdollisuus (Finnish), avoir une chance (French), prendre le risque (French), avoir l’occasion (French), avoir la moindre chance (note: interrogative / negative form) (French), ha en chans (Swedish), chanslös (english: antonym) (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-stand_a_chance-en-verb-VK1QVQaP Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for stand a chance meaning in English (2.6kB)

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