Noun

(en noun)

An incident or action standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events.

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An installment of a drama told in parts, as in a TV series.

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, title= TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992) , work=The Onion AV Club , passage=We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs and some of the smartest, darkest, and weirdest gags ever Trojan-horsed into a network cartoon with a massive family audience.}}

Noun

(en noun)

A risky or daring undertaking or journey.

* 1881 , Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island . Chapter 4.

My heart was beating finely when we two set forth in the cold night upon this dangerous venture .

An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen; an accident; chance; contingency.

(Francis Bacon)

The thing risked; a stake; especially, something sent to sea in trade.

* Shakespeare

My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.