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chancer [ˈtʃɑːnsə] n
Slang an unscrupulous or dishonest opportunist who is prepared to try any dubious scheme for making money or furthering his own ends [from chance + -er1] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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When Eddie runs into the same group of chancers at the hospital where his mother works things really begin to get interesting. Judy Carte's Favorite Resource: Moon Journals: Writing, Art, and Inquiry Through Focused Nature Study, by Joni Chancer and Gina Rester-Zodrow (Heinemann, 1997). But the text itself reveals another and rather less agreeable portrait of Yorke as an impecunious chancer whose fabled technical competence is recurrently disproved and whose modest architectural talent was compensated for by constant networking and creative dependency on others. |
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