Commit and Venture

• (v.t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
• (v.t.) To confound.
• (v.i.) To sin; especially, to be incontinent.
• (v.t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
• (v.t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
• (v.t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
• (v.t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin or fault.

verb

• Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
  • usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
  • synonyms: perpetrate, pull
• Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
  • usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
  • synonyms: give, dedicate, consecrate, devote
• Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
  • usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
  • synonyms: institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge
• Confer a trust upon.
  • usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
  • synonyms: entrust, intrust, trust, confide
• Make an investment.
  • usage: "Put money into bonds"
  • synonyms: invest, put, place
• Engage in or perform.
  • usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
  • synonyms: practice

(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.

noun

• Any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome.
• An investment that is very risky but could yield great profits.
  • usage: "he knew the stock was a speculation when he bought it"
  • synonyms: speculation
• A commercial undertaking that risks a loss but promises a profit.

verb

• Proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers.
  • usage: "We ventured into the world of high-tech and bought a supercomputer"
  • synonyms: embark
• Put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation.
  • usage: "I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again"; "I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong"
  • synonyms: guess, pretend, hazard
• Put at risk.
  • usage: "I will stake my good reputation for this"
  • synonyms: hazard, adventure, stake, jeopardize

• (v.i.) To make a venture; to run a hazard or risk; to take the chances.
• (v.t.) To expose to hazard; to risk; to hazard; as, to venture one's person in a balloon.
• (v.t.) To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
• (n.) An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation.
• (n.) An event that is not or can not be, foreseen; an accident; chance; hap; contingency; luck.
• (v.t.) To put or send on a venture or chance; as, to venture a horse to the West Indies.
• (n.) The thing put to hazard; a stake; a risk; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
• (v.i.) To hazard one's self; to have the courage or presumption to do, undertake or say something; to dare.

VENTURE is an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits.