at-risk

at-risk definition - legal

adj

Characterization of person or property subject to unique jeopardy or threat, as in the case of youth “at-risk” for increased likelihood of delinquency due to home and environmental factors, or finances “at-risk” due to vagaries of stock market, global instability, health issues of individual having such finances, etc.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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