"take one's chance" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "takes one's chance",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking one's chance",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took one's chance",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken one's chance",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "take<,,took,taken> one's chance"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, February 28, Alice Park, The Men’s Figure-Skating Fracas, Time (retrieved 29 Dec. 2022)",
          "text": "Lysacek opted not to take his chances with the risky move."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To act in a manner dependent on luck: to attempt to do something risky or not particularly likely to succeed."
      ],
      "id": "en-take_one's_chance-en-verb-EUhoSM52",
      "links": [
        [
          "luck",
          "luck"
        ],
        [
          "risky",
          "risky"
        ],
        [
          "succeed",
          "succeed"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To act in a manner dependent on luck: to attempt to do something risky or not particularly likely to succeed."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "take one's chances"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to act in a manner dependent on luck",
          "word": "ottaa riski"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to act in a manner dependent on luck",
          "word": "koettaa onneaan"
        },
        {
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "parabéllomai",
          "sense": "to act in a manner dependent on luck",
          "word": "παραβέλλομαι"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to act in a manner dependent on luck",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "ryzykować"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to act in a manner dependent on luck",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "zaryzykować"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to act in a manner dependent on luck",
          "word": "jugársela"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "take one's chance"
}

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    {
      "form": "takes one's chance",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking one's chance",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took one's chance",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken one's chance",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "1": "take<,,took,taken> one's chance"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "2010, February 28, Alice Park, The Men’s Figure-Skating Fracas, Time (retrieved 29 Dec. 2022)",
          "text": "Lysacek opted not to take his chances with the risky move."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To act in a manner dependent on luck: to attempt to do something risky or not particularly likely to succeed."
      ],
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        [
          "luck",
          "luck"
        ],
        [
          "risky",
          "risky"
        ],
        [
          "succeed",
          "succeed"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To act in a manner dependent on luck: to attempt to do something risky or not particularly likely to succeed."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "take one's chances"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to act in a manner dependent on luck",
      "word": "ottaa riski"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to act in a manner dependent on luck",
      "word": "koettaa onneaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "parabéllomai",
      "sense": "to act in a manner dependent on luck",
      "word": "παραβέλλομαι"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to act in a manner dependent on luck",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "ryzykować"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to act in a manner dependent on luck",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zaryzykować"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to act in a manner dependent on luck",
      "word": "jugársela"
    }
  ],
  "word": "take one's chance"
}