Risk Definition

rĭsk
risked, risking, risks
noun
risks
The chance of injury, damage, or loss; dangerous chance; hazard.
Webster's New World
A factor, thing, element, or course involving uncertain danger; a hazard.
American Heritage
The degree of probability of loss.
Webster's New World
The amount of possible loss to the insuring company.
Webster's New World
The chance of loss.
Webster's New World
Antonyms:
verb
risked, risking, risks
To expose to the chance of injury, damage, or loss; hazard.
To risk one's life.
Webster's New World
To incur the risk of.
To risk a fight.
Webster's New World
To incur risk (to something).
Wiktionary
Antonyms:
  • be certain
idiom
at risk
  • In an endangered state, especially from lack of proper care:

    unsupervised children who are at risk of dropping out of school.

American Heritage
at risk
  • in danger of damage, injury, loss, etc.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Risk

Noun

Singular:
risk
Plural:
risks

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Origin of Risk

  • From earlier risque, from Middle French risque, from Italian risco ("risk"; > Modern Italian rischio), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Latin *resicum (“that which cuts, rock, crag") (> Medieval Latin resicu), from Latin resecō (“cut off, loose, curtail", verb), in the sense of that which is a danger to boating or shipping; or from Ancient Greek ῥιζικόν (rhizikón, “root, radical, hazard"). Cognate with Spanish riesgo, Portuguese risco

    From Wiktionary

  • French risque from Italian risco, rischio probably from Medieval Greek rizikon sustenance obtained by a soldier through his own initiative, fortune from Arabic rizq sustenance, that which God allots from Syriac ruziqā daily bread from Middle Iranian rōčig from rōč day from Old Iranian raučah- leuk- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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