Risk
[rɪsk]
Definition
(noun.) a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury; 'he saw the rewards but not the risks of crime'; 'there was a danger he would do the wrong thing'.
(noun.) the probability of being exposed to an infectious agent.
(noun.) the probability of becoming infected given that exposure to an infectious agent has occurred.
(verb.) expose to a chance of loss or damage; 'We risked losing a lot of money in this venture'; 'Why risk your life?'; 'She laid her job on the line when she told the boss that he was wrong'.
Typist: Vilma--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction.
(n.) Hazard of loss; liabillity to loss in property.
(n.) To expose to risk, hazard, or peril; to venture; as, to risk goods on board of a ship; to risk one's person in battle; to risk one's fame by a publication.
(n.) To incur the risk or danger of; as, to risk a battle.
Typed by Clarissa
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Danger, hazard, jeopardy, peril, chance, venture.
v. a. Hazard, peril, endanger, stake, jeopard, venture, jeopardize, put in peril, put to hazard, expose to danger.
Edited by Jeanne
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Hazard, danger, peril, exposure, jeopardy
ANT:Safety, security, insurance, protection, prophylactic
SYN:Hazard, peril, jeopard, venture, stake,[See HAZARD]
Inputed by Joanna
Definition
n. hazard: chance of loss or injury.—v.t. to expose to hazard: to venture to take the chance of.—n. Risk′er one who risks.—adj. Risk′y dangerous: venturesome.—Run a risk to incur hazard.
Checker: Sherman
Examples
- He had no suspicion that they ran any risk of being houseless until morning; had no idea of the truth until long, long afterwards. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Damme, I'll risk it. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I was just thinking--But will you run the risk of dinner? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- But how destroy them so effectually that there should be no second risk of their falling in such hands? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Judge from this, what motives he had to run the risk which he actually ran. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Selden continued with a smile: You see no such scruples restrained me; but then I haven't as much to risk if I incur your displeasure. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I was not obliged to bring their unhallowed scrawls, and run the risk of being bewitched, as more folks than one told me. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- What Mr Harmon risks, is quite another pair of shoes. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I am braver than I was, because I have lost all; and he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- If she were ill-used, then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I knew he was extravagant, but I did not think that he would be so mean as to hang his risks on his oldest friend, who could the least afford to lose. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Don't offend any one and make useless risks. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Not everyone may feel that to push out into the untried, and take risks for big prizes, is worth while. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- You observe he never risks saying Roylands, but always addresses you as Mr Maurice—Maurice is of course a Greek name. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- But having risked discovery by venturing here at all, I should have been glad to track some part of the way. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He had risked the last of his capital on the purchase of these frames and shears which to-night had been expected. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- One system embraced men who risked life for a principle, and often men of social standing, competence, or wealth and independence of character. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Had I had the means, I would have risked all, have torn her by force from the murderer's den, and trusted to the healing balm of reason and affection. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- In his desire to repair his first losses, my father risked double stakes, and thus incurred a debt of honour he was wholly unable to pay. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I have risked enough already for your sake. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I don't think even the pious Hellenes would have risked their lives in building a temple under the very nose of Vulcan in full work. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- They were near to extermination that once and they will not venture risking it again. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- It wouldn't be worth risking getting over on my belly yet, not as close as that thing was to the surface, and I can see better this way. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- She felt that she had been risking her friend's happiness on most insufficient grounds. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The first represented the decision-compelling spirit, the second the spirit of risking little to gain a little. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Edited by Juanita