averse

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• become: Society has become so much more risk averse over the last 20 years.

Modifies a noun

• culture: The extent that the precautionary principle is applied in the E.U. might lead to a more risk averse culture than the US.
• society: One is a " more risk averse society " in which those in charge of children in particular are quicker to ring 999.
• approach: This tends to induce a distinctly risk averse approach to economic policy and thus a more conservative macro-economic strategy.
• strategy: Do weather and time of day determine whether or not a risk prone or risk averse strategy is adopted?
• attitude: The risk averse attitudes of many local authorities is hampering the development of world class facilities.

Modifying Another Word

• not: He was not averse however to taking chances for himself.
• so: Just wondering, What is so averse about Hughes and Homerton?
• n't: She says: I was n't averse to going back.
• never: Even pre-Blair, Labor was never averse to attempting military solutions in Ireland.
• very: A final grievance mentioned by NGOs is that the government is very averse to bilateral and multilateral donors channeling resources straight to NGOs.
• naturally: Reduced risk NYMEX, as with most businesses, is naturally averse to taking risks.

Infinitive complement

• risk: Finally, we talk about the public sector sometimes being averse to risk.
• change: Can we wonder then that leaders are averse to change?

Used with adjective complement

• seem: He seemed quite averse to signing his own agreement: yet at five we set out with an heavy heart.
• risk: Were investors risk averse, having recently lost money?
• mean: On the other hand another main speaker, John Wiltshire of Guinness, was by no means averse to freight exchanges.
• become: I agree that we are becoming too averse to risk.
• remain: Unlike the later National Socialists of Germany, the Fascists remained averse to outright nationalization of industry.

Preposition: in

• term: A feeling that Wales is very bureaucratic, slow and risk averse in terms of strict eligibility criteria for training courses.