Word Finder - risk

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A possible adverse event or outcome

synonyms

• danger
• hazard
• peril

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The probability of a negative outcome to a decision or event.

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2006, Trever Ramsey on BBC News website, Exercise 'cuts skin cancer risk' read at http//news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4764535.stm on 14 May 2006

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The magnitude of possible loss consequent to a decision or event.

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(formal use in business, engineering, etc.) The potential (conventionally negative) effect of an event, determined by combining the likelihood of the event occurring with the effect should it occur.

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An entity insured by an insurer or the specific uncertain events that the insurer underwrites.

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To incur risk of (something).

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To incur risk of harming or jeopardizing.

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To incur risk as a result of (doing something).

I take a risk every time I go out.

Death is a part of the risk we take.

I don't want to risk hurting you.

I wanted a wife and children, but I didn't want to risk losing them because of the ranch.

I guess a walk in the cool evening isn't worth the risk of being eaten up by beasts is it?

That was why Pete chose the route - less risk of being robbed.

Separating might increase the risks for some, but it would reduce the risk of everyone being captured.

It was a risk that didn't pay off.

She had been reluctant to mention her idea before, but now she was desperate enough to risk his anger.

We're putting innocent people at risk and not just ourselves.

He couldn't risk it.

She had to wait for the right moment, when she wouldn't risk losing him.

I am not willing to risk the consequences if you're wrong.

And risk seeing her again.

Yes, I think we may risk it.

Finding women there meant the risk of seeing them again would be minimal, since they were most likely traveling on business.

We could go on here and talk about other military powers and alliances, but the simple fact is that large countries are less willing to risk war in defense of small ones.

You don't want to risk losing your blood monkey.

Better die a thousand times than risk receiving an unkind look or bad opinion from him, Rostov decided; and sorrowfully and with a heart full despair he rode away, continually looking back at the Tsar, who still remained in the same attitude of indecision.

It was a heart-wrenching chore, choosing which at risk victims might be saved and which ones ignored to suffer their fate.

Right about now, she'd be happy to see Kris and would even risk going to the shadow world!

He wanted her dead, but he couldn.t risk Darkyn.s anger before he had it.

That put everyone at risk, but her goats were the easiest targets.

It was the sign of someone with a secret he couldn't risk anyone discovering.

It had been Alex who convinced her to take the risk and adopt Jonathan.

We can risk their anger.

The world was falling apart around them, and he couldn't risk either of their mental states in a relationship that may not see both of them surviving.

I'll accept all risk and if Darkyn is angry, I'll take you with me.

Or risk that there was something else going on that would drive his mate back to Darkyn for whatever reason.

With her arm bleeding, she couldn.t risk drawing the attention of the Immortals by taking the front stairwell even to meet her sister.

I don't want to see you take any risk.

Everything on the menu is served in an appetizer-sized portion, so couples can share their meals and take a risk in trying new things together.

This being the case, we are at liberty to make the assumption that the intrinsic energy of each element (under specified conditions) is zero, without thereby introducing any risk of self-contradiction in thermochemical calculations.

With a touch of vanity he expressed the fear lest "the coolness of fancy that attends advanced years should make me risk the reputation I had acquired."

The wish was gratified at the risk of the lives of three brave men, and he recognized the solemnity of the occasion by pouring out the water as an offering unto Yahweh.

The effect was to reduce to a minimum the risk of the introduction of disease amongst the herds and flocks of the country, and at the same time to confine the trade in store stock exclusively to the breeders of Great Britain and Ireland.

Military affairs in this period are dealt with under Napoleonic Campaigns; but it may be noted here that during the anxious days which Napoleon spent at the camp of Boulogne in the second and third weeks of August 1805, uncertain whether to risk all in an attack on England in case Villeneuve should arrive, or to turn the Grand Army against Austria, the only step which he took to avert a continental war was the despatch of General Duroc to Berlin to offer Hanover to Prussia on consideration of her framing a close alliance with France.

Owing to the smaller size of the male and the greater voracity of the female, the male makes his advances to his mate at the risk of his life and is not infrequently killed and eaten by her either before or after pairing has been effected.

There can be no question that a deep soil is better for the cottonplant; but the expense of obtaining it, the risk of injuring the soil through leaching, and the danger of bringing poor soil to the surface, have led many planters to oppose this plan.

Originally cotton was imported by the Liverpool dealer as an agent for American firms or at his own risk, and then sold by private treaty, auction, or through brokers, to Cotton market methods.

If he de termines to buy cotton at once, others who risk more, and trust their judgment of the future, may secure the contract.

If a spinner is pressed by a shipper to make quotations with refusal for two or three days to give time for business to be settled by cable, it is evidently not impossible for the spinner to shift the risk involved by getting in turn from his broker refusal quotations for cotton.

Local preachers received notice to quit their holdings, labourers were discharged, those who opened their cottages for meetings were evicted, and to show any hospitality to a travelling preacher was to risk the loss of home and employment.

A small portion of this was raised (at great risk) by performances at the Albert Hall in London, conducted by Wagner and Richter, in 1877.

She instructed her daughter to show a proper respect to her husband's grandfather, Louis XV., by behaving with politeness to his mistresses, in order that the alliance between the two courts might run no risk.

Whether from hostile forays or from piracy, any Greek was exposed to the risk of enslavement.

In 1353 the king took the borough of York into his own hands, "to avoid any risk of disturbance and possible great bloodshed such as has arisen before these times," and finally in the same year an agreement was brought about by Archbishop Thoresby that the whole of Bootham should be considered a suburb of York except the street called St Marygate, which should be in the jurisdiction of the abbey.

The want of railways in Asia Minor was urgently felt, but no capitalists were willing to risk their money in Turkish railways without a substantial guarantee, and a guarantee of the Turkish government alone was not considered substantial enough.

To do so by sea at this season was to risk delay, while in moving by land he would have the Spanish armies between him and the French.

Imagining himself sure of a brilliant destiny in Europe if he lost his Brazilian crown, the emperor attempted to risk a decisive attack against the Liberals, and to form a new ministry composed of men favourable to absolutism.