1) (a competition, race, in which there is) a disadvantage imposed on a competitor to make the chances of success more equal for all; anything likely to lessen one's chances of success (handicap)
2) happening without having been planned; depending on chances (haphazard)
3) the chances in favour of or against something happening (odds)
the quality of being probable; likelihood
likelihood of something happening
a condition in which a person or thing is (in appearance, mind, health etc); an organized political community with a government; to express (an opinion etc) in words, especially carefully, fully and clearly
condition or mode of being
