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Risk   /rɪsk/   Listen
noun
Risk  n.  
1.
Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction. "The imminent and constant risk of assassination, a risk which has shaken very strong nerves."
2.
(Com.) Hazard of loss; liabillity to loss in property.
To run a risk, to incur hazard; to encounter danger.
Synonyms: Danger; hazard; peril; jeopardy; exposure. See Danger.


verb
Risk  v. t.  (past & past part. risked; pres. part. risking)  
1.
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.
2.
To incur the risk or danger of; as, to risk a battle.
Synonyms: To hazard; peril; endanger; jeopard.





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"Risk" Quotes from Famous Books



... of foreign coin imported has been received at New York, and if a branch mint were established at that city all the foreign coin received at that port could at once be converted into our own coin without the expense, risk, and delay of transporting it to the Mint for that purpose, and the amount recoined ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... dealt, I repented it. She crouched down, silent, in a corner of the room, and eyed me steadily. It was a look that cooled my hot blood in an instant. There was no time now to think of making atonement. I could only risk the worst, and make sure of her till the funeral was over. I locked her ...
— The Lock And Key Library - Classic Mystery And Detective Stories, Modern English • Various
... his will, but she was only amused at his occasional divagations, and had no thought of looking for meanings which might terrify her. He was quite conscious of his good fortune and too well balanced to risk its loss. So Mrs. Croix might be driven to rest her hopes on a trick of chance or a coup de theatre. But she was a very clever woman; and she was not unlike Hamilton in a quite phenomenal precocity, and in the torrential ...
— The Conqueror • Gertrude Franklin Atherton
... a quick survey of the room. The picture was against the collar-box. But he took the risk and ...
— K • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... propriety of the verdict, which, he insisted, was the result of "a full, patient, and impartial investigation." He made no distinction. "I am perfectly convinced," he said, "that all of you had resolved, at any risk, and by any amount of dangerous violence and outrage, to accomplish your object; and that, in fact, Charles Brett was murdered because it was essential to the completion of your common design that he should be." The stereotyped ...
— The Dock and the Scaffold • Unknown


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