adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
risk averse
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Shareholders are more risk averse than they used to be.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And there was Matthew Prescott, too: she was by no means averse to him.
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Children with these conditions will be averse to glare and have severely reduced vision in bright sunlight.
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He gambles on football, thinks Las Vegas is heavenly and isn't averse to extensive investment in the stock market.
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Mrs Murray has chosen Sir Thomas for her daughter Rosalie, who is not averse to becoming the mistress of his estate.
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Select chores that the child is not overly averse to doing.
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Self-defeating organizations are, by definition, averse to the truth.
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This proud, but humiliated, most complicated of politicians was not averse to flattery.