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Danger and Risk Definitions

Danger

Exposure or vulnerability to harm or risk.

Risk

The possibility of suffering harm or loss; danger.

Danger

A source or an instance of risk or peril.

Risk

A factor, thing, element, or course involving uncertain danger; a hazard
"the usual risks of the desert.

Danger

(Obsolete) Power, especially power to harm.

Risk

The danger or probability of loss to an insurer.
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Danger

Exposure to likely harm; peril.
There's plenty of danger in the desert.

Risk

The amount that an insurance company stands to lose.

Danger

An instance or cause of likely harm.

Risk

The variability of returns from an investment.

Danger

(obsolete) Mischief.

Risk

The chance of nonpayment of a debt.
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Danger

The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger").
The north signal was at danger because of the rockslide.

Risk

One considered with respect to the possibility of loss
A poor risk.

Danger

(obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.

Risk

To expose to a chance of loss or damage; hazard.

Danger

(obsolete) Liability.

Risk

To incur the risk of
His action risked a sharp reprisal.
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Danger

(obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness; hesitation.

Risk

(uncountable) The probability of a negative outcome to a decision or event.
There is risk of being brutalized, arrested, imprisoned and tortured, all because I want you to know the truth about this matter.

Danger

(obsolete) To claim liability.

Risk

(uncountable) The magnitude of possible loss consequent to a decision or event.

Danger

(obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.

Risk

The potential negative effect of an event, determined by multiplying the likelihood of the event occurring with its magnitude should it occur.

Danger

(obsolete) To run the risk.

Risk

(countable) A possible adverse event or outcome.

Danger

Authority; jurisdiction; control.
In dangerhad he . . . the young girls.

Risk

(insurance) A type of adverse event covered under an insurance policy.

Danger

Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty.
You stand within his danger, do you not?
Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in dangerof this statute.

Risk

(countable) A thing (from the perspective of how likely or unlikely it is to cause an adverse effect).
That man is going to be a big risk once he's out of prison.
Those stairs are a major risk.

Danger

Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity.

Risk

A borrower (such as a mortgage-holder or person with a credit card).
A good credit rating indicates the customer is a desirable risk.

Danger

Difficulty; sparingness.

Risk

(finance) A financial product (typically an investment).
Subprime mortgages are poor risks; especially for a pension scheme.

Danger

Coyness; disdainful behavior.
Those rich man in whose debt and danger they be not.

Risk

(insurance) An entity insured by an insurer.

Danger

To endanger.

Risk

(transitive) To incur risk of (something).

Danger

The condition of being susceptible to harm or injury;
You are in no danger
There was widespread danger of disease

Risk

(transitive) To incur risk of harming or jeopardizing.

Danger

A venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury;
He saw the rewards but not the risks of crime
There was a danger he would do the wrong thing

Risk

(transitive) To incur risk as a result of (doing something).

Danger

A cause of pain or injury or loss;
He feared the dangers of traveling by air

Risk

Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction.
The imminent and constant risk of assassination, a risk which has shaken very strong nerves.

Danger

A dangerous place;
He moved out of danger

Risk

Hazard of loss; liabillity to loss in property.

Risk

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.

Risk

To incur the risk or danger of; as, to risk a battle.

Risk

A source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune;
Drinking alcohol is a health hazard

Risk

A venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury;
He saw the rewards but not the risks of crime
There was a danger he would do the wrong thing

Risk

The probability of becoming infected given that exposure to an infectious agent has occurred

Risk

The probability of being exposed to an infectious agent

Risk

Expose to a chance of loss or damage;
We risked losing a lot of money in this venture
Why risk your life?

Risk

Take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome;
When you buy these stocks you are gambling

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