<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>hazard or risk of or exposure to loss, harm, death, or injury: For a moment his life was in jeopardy.</li><li>peril or danger: The spy was in constant jeopardy of being discovered.</li><li>Law: the danger or hazard of being found guilty, and of consequent punishment, undergone by criminal defendants on trial.</li></ul>