(probabilities)
1.
The ~ of something happening is how likely it is to happen, sometimes expressed as a fraction or a percentage.
Without a transfusion, the victim’s ~ of dying was 100%...
The probabilities of crime or victimization are higher with some situations than with others...
N-VAR
2.
You say that there is a ~ that something will happen when it is likely to happen.
If you’ve owned property for several years, the ~ is that values have increased...
His story-telling can push the bounds of ~ a bit far at times.
N-VAR vagueness
3.
If you say that something will happen in all ~, you mean that you think it is very likely to happen.
The Republicans had better get used to the fact that in all ~, they are going to lose...
PHRASE: PHR with cl vagueness