"risk" Definition

Definitions for the word "risk" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
Hazard of loss; liabillity to loss in property.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
To incur the risk or danger of; as, to risk a battle.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
1 chance or possibility of danger, loss, injury, etc. (health risk; risk of fire). 2 person or thing causing a risk or regarded in relation to risk (is a poor risk). v. 1 expose to risk. 2 accept the chance of (risk getting wet). 3 venture on. at risk exposed to danger. At one''s (own) risk accepting responsibility, agreeing to make no claims. At the risk of with the possibility of (an adverse consequence). Put at risk expose to danger. Run a (or the) risk (often foll. By of) expose oneself to danger or loss etc. Take a risk (or risks) chance the possibility of danger etc. [french risque(r) from italian]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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