I. noun
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a health risk/hazard/threat (= something that could damage your health )
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The report looked at the health risks linked to eating excess sugar.
a safety hazard (= something which may be dangerous )
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The firing range is poorly designed and poses a significant safety hazard.
an occupational hazard (= a risk that always exists in a particular job or activity )
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Getting injured is an occupational hazard of the sport.
hazard a guess (= guess something, when you feel very uncertain )
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No one at this stage is prepared to hazard a guess about the outcome of the elections.
hazard lights
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■ ADJECTIVE
environmental
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An environmental hazard and an eyesore at a park off Swindon's Cricklade Road.
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The need to protect the residents of the base from environmental hazards places severe demands on its design and construction.
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The fact that they were creating a possible environmental hazard , didn't enter into it.
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Initial fears that oil from the tanker would cause an environmental hazard proved unfounded.
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The legislation stated that the plant posed serious environmental hazards and increased the risk of nuclear proliferation.
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The survey will report on environmental hazards associated with exploration, such as the sea floor and faults.
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One of the first environmental hazards to be studied was that of desertification.
natural
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The collection of historical data on natural hazards is important since it is clear that their spatial pattern varies through time.
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The further subdivision of natural hazards is self-explanatory as is that of individual technological hazards.
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It is often seen in nature, but becomes much more obvious when natural hazards are removed in captive and human populations.
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It's a demanding course with, some would say, more than its fair share of natural hazards .
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Research on natural hazards has a long tradition in geography going back more than half a century.
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Spatial analysis features particularly prominent on the research agenda relating to natural and technological hazards and geodemographics.
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It may, of course, be easier to quantify risk for natural hazards because of historical records and statistical estimation of recurrence intervals.
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Another natural hazard is radioactive material.
occupational
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Therefore, hepatitis B represents a significant occupational hazard to all workers who have contact with blood or body fluids.
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We all know that in contemporary science the greatest occupational hazard is simultaneous discovery.
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This is an occupational hazard shared by sportswriters and opinion pollsters.
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By the early seventies both were considered unremarkable occupational hazards of life in the gay fast lane.
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Getting injured is an occupational hazard .
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Loss of concentration, a complete lack of ability to focus, was the chief occupational hazard of the trading floor.
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Such questions from the likes of nosy old hacks like me are an occupational hazard of the famous.
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The data on occupational hazards and wage differentials, used by Thaler and Rosen, suffer from several problems: 1.
potential
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A potential X-ray hazard could then exist.
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Mines had been a potential hazard at or near the scene of fighting or port approaches since 1983.
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But the potential hazards are not imaginary.
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Each component was hot dip galvanized prior to being brought on site and welding was avoided to eliminate potential fire hazards .
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Environmental hazards Potential hazards in the hospital environment are numerous.
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You should report any potential danger or hazard to your manager.
real
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Henry did realize, didn't he, that what he'd done had constituted a real health hazard ?
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What are the real hazards from these smaller, much more numerous impactors?
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The one real hazard here is the clock mounted on the north wall.
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But clearly the real hazard lies with larger, rarer bodies.
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Popular wisdom accepts impacts as a real hazard .
serious
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Rush hour crowding was a serious hazard , and the station was 39 percent understaffed.
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In general, both shock waves from airbursts and tsunami waves from ocean impacts may present serious hazards to populated areas.
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The legislation stated that the plant posed serious environmental hazards and increased the risk of nuclear proliferation.
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Overloading a socket outlet can easily start a fire, and all those trailing flexes pose a serious trip hazard .
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Avoid foam filled sofas - they are a serious fire hazard and give off fatal fumes and petrochemical vapours when burning.
■ NOUN
fire
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Mrs R. was a heavy smoker, and this was a fire hazard .
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The build-up of ice on roofs is also creating leaks that threaten internal wiring and pose a fire hazard .
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The road fizzled out at a gate plastered with fire hazard warnings, leading on to the moor itself.
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She knew all about fire hazards .
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Each component was hot dip galvanized prior to being brought on site and welding was avoided to eliminate potential fire hazards .
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A little broom has been planted, but not much because it is a fire hazard .
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The resulting rank heather is a severe fire hazard in areas attracting tourists.
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The restaurant clogs quickly into a cosy fire hazard .
health
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Eisenhower claimed in 1955 that the tests were not a health hazard .
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The public is convinced tobacco smoking is a health hazard and must be reined in.
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Living close to overhead electric power lines causes health hazards .
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But throughout the country, lawyers are realizing that their jobs just might be health hazards .
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Campaigners claim deposits of coal dust released into the atmosphere are a health hazard and a nuisance.
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Excess body fat is a health hazard .
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Rubbish, including gas bottles, was strewn across the land and the entire site was a health hazard .
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A public health hazard , to be sure, but not exactly the stuff of a page-turner.
safety
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The health and safety hazards associated with nuclear energy will have to be overcome.
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Before tests can begin, the Food and Drug Administration must decide if the potatoes are likely to pose major safety hazards .
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The Department of Transport claims that the cafes are a safety hazard .
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He says that they need the cafes because they're cheap, but they're not a safety hazard .
■ VERB
constitute
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Henry did realize, didn't he, that what he'd done had constituted a real health hazard ?
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As far as he's aware, Freddie is quite harmless and doesn't constitute a health hazard .
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Flying pests also constitute a health hazard .
pose
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However, mats can themselves pose hazards , and it is as well if you are aware of these.
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When operated in wide expanses of water, away from other people, jet skis pose no hazard .
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The legislation stated that the plant posed serious environmental hazards and increased the risk of nuclear proliferation.
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Overloading a socket outlet can easily start a fire, and all those trailing flexes pose a serious trip hazard .
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They can pose a hazard to repair crews.
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Before tests can begin, the Food and Drug Administration must decide if the potatoes are likely to pose major safety hazards .
present
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Nuclear waste Disposal of intermediate level nuclear waste on land also presents a hazard .
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In general, both shock waves from airbursts and tsunami waves from ocean impacts may present serious hazards to populated areas.
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The natural decomposition process which occurs in landfills also produces large quantities of methane and thereby presents a significant explosion hazard .
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But the others would present a continuing hazard to Earth for thousands of years to come.
reduce
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Nick Kollerstrom's book will not help in the campaign to recognise and reduce the hazard from lead in our environment.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a study into the potential hazards of playing computer games for long periods of time
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Despite the hazards of working 50 storeys above the ground, my grandfather loved his job.
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Flashing signs on the motorway warn drivers of hazards ahead.
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For international traders, changes in the exchange rate are an unavoidable hazard .
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Ice on the road is a major hazard at this time of the year.
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Malaria is a common hazard of life in the region.
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Serious lung disease seems to be an occupational hazard of working in mines.
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Steep stairs can present a particular hazard to older people.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Automakers say that in their zeal to promote airbags, regulators turned a blind eye to evidence of hazards.
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Many represent a hazard to neonatal life.
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Other approaches include limiting vehicle horsepower, placing warning signs to mark hazards and enforcing speed limits.
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Popular wisdom accepts impacts as a real hazard .
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The estimated hazard may increase with duration for some individuals and not for others in the sample, depending on their data.
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This presented a hazard that she hadn't experienced before - traffic.
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We all know that in contemporary science the greatest occupational hazard is simultaneous discovery.
II. verb
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■ NOUN
guess
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Not being a builder, nor an architect, I can only hazard a guess .
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It would be foolish even to hazard a guess .
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The glitter in his hooded eyes made it impossible for her to hazard even the wildest guess at what he was thinking.
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We hazard a guess that they're lurking in a shoebox or, worse still, the ubiquitous carrier bag!
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What on earth the referee had done to incur such mindless, moronic abuse, one can only hazard a guess .
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I hazard a guess that there are not only pure stallions on the moor; fate and carelessness always complicates herd life.
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What the connection is we can only hazard a guess at but it confirms all our worst suspicions about anything-core outfits once and for all.
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It was hard to say, even hazard a guess .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A few thought a steamer might hazard the crossing.
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It would be foolish even to hazard a guess.
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No wonder no-one at Siemens Nixdorf wants to hazard when the company might return to profit.
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Not being a builder, nor an architect, I can only hazard a guess.
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Now that the end at last seemed in sight, he thought he might hazard a look.
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The glitter in his hooded eyes made it impossible for her to hazard even the wildest guess at what he was thinking.