Definitions for risks

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Spelling: [risk]

IPA: /rɪsk/

Risks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in risks (ikrss).

Definitions for risks

noun

1. exposure to the chance of injury or loss; a hazard or dangerous chance:
2. Insurance. the hazard or chance of loss. the degree of probability of such loss. the amount that the insurance company may lose. a person or thing with reference to the hazard involved in insuring him, her, or it. the type of loss, as life, fire, marine disaster, or earthquake, against which an insurance policy is drawn.

Idioms

1. at risk, in a dangerous situation or status; in jeopardy: under financial or legal obligation; held responsible:
2. take / run a risk, to expose oneself to the chance of injury or loss; put oneself in danger; hazard; venture.

verb (used with object)

1. to expose to the chance of injury or loss; hazard:
2. to venture upon; take or run the chance of:

Origin of risks

1655-65; French risque Italian risc(hi)o, of obscure origin

Examples for risks

Advanced maternal age dramatically increases the risk of maternal mortality as well as birth defects like Down Syndrome.

And whatever our views of its cause, we can agree that children at risk are not at fault.

Go back and tell them it would take too great a risk to try to fix me.

It denotes the person that puts on the badge, puts on the blue uniform, and goes into the streets to put their life at risk.

So perfect that we wonder if we should risk ruining it by asking for yet another take.

Then, while they wondered whether they might risk it, he got worse.

At the risk of overturning the machine he veered it sharply to the left.

When a woman loves a fierce man she takes the risk of his fierceness.

The more antibiotics are used inappropriately, the greater the risk of bacteria growing resistant to them.

Politicians who openly associated with Duke, or his hard-core associates, did so at their own risk.