Definition of risk

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Risk (n.) Hazard of loss; liabillity to loss in property.

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Security :: Security (n.) Freedom from risk; safety.
Tight :: Tight (superl.) Handy; adroit; brisk.
Actively :: Actively (adv.) In an active manner; nimbly; briskly; energetically; also, by one's own action; voluntarily, not passively..
Bully :: Bully (n.) A brisk, dashing fellow..
Hedge :: Hedge (v. i.) To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations..
Plight :: Plight (n.) Condition; state; -- risk, or exposure to danger, often being implied; as, a luckless plight..
Jeopardize :: Jeopardize (v. t.) To expose to loss or injury; to risk; to jeopard.
Deter :: Deter (v. t.) To prevent by fear; hence, to hinder or prevent from action by fear of consequences, or difficulty, risk, etc..
Oriskany :: Oriskany (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, certain beds, chiefly limestone, characteristic of the latest period of the Silurian age..
Star :: Star (n.) Specifically, a radiated mark in writing or printing; an asterisk [thus, *]; -- used as a reference to a note, or to fill a blank where something is omitted, etc..
Smart :: Smart (v. i.) A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy..
Alacriously :: Alacriously (adv.) With alacrity; briskly.
Adventure :: Adventure (n.) To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture..
Frisking :: Frisking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fris.
Risk :: Risk (n.) Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction..
Frisker :: Frisker (n.) One who frisks; one who leaps of dances in gayety; a wanton; an inconstant or unsettled person.
Asterisk :: Asterisk (n.) The figure of a star, thus, /, used in printing and writing as a reference to a passage or note in the margin, to supply the omission of letters or words, or to mark a word or phrase as having a special character..
Venture :: Venture (n.) The thing put to hazard; a stake; a risk; especially, something sent to sea in trade..
Gambol :: Gambol (v. i.) To dance and skip about in sport; to frisk; to skip; to play in frolic, like boys or lambs..
Martingal :: Martingal (n.) The act of doubling, at each stake, that which has been lost on the preceding stake; also, the sum so risked; -- metaphorically derived from the bifurcation of the martingale of a harness..
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