chance of survival
Definition of chance of survival
: likelihood that someone will continue to live in spite of present-day difficult conditions (such as being ill or injured)
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: something that happens unpredictably without discernible human intention or observable cause
: the assumed impersonal purposeless determiner of unaccountable happenings : luck
: the fortuitous or incalculable element in existence : contingency
: to take place, come about, or turn out by chance : happen
: to have the good or bad luck
: to come or light by chance
: the act or fact of living or continuing longer than another person or thing
: the continuation of life or existence
: one that survives
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