I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a credit risk (= a risk that a bank etc may not get back the money it lends )
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Banks first have to assess whether a borrower is a credit risk.
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 potential danger/threat/risk
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Tired drivers are a potential danger to other road users.
a risk factor (= something that makes you more likely to have an illness )
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The highest risk factor for coronary heart disease was found to be smoking.
a security risk
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His presence in the area posed a significant security risk.
an unnecessary risk
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Neither team is likely to take any unnecessary risks, so the result will probably be a draw.
eliminate a need/possibility/risk/problem etc
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The credit card eliminates the need for cash or cheques.
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There is no solution that will totally eliminate the possibility of theft.
lessen the risk/chance/possibility etc (of sth)
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Exercise lessens the risk of heart disease.
pose a threat/danger/risk
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The chemical leak poses a threat to human health.
risk averse
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Shareholders are more risk averse than they used to be.
risk averse (= do not like taking a risk )
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Some banks are risk averse .
risk management
risk your life
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He risked his life to help Jews during the Second World War.
security risk
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After the bomb threat, it was considered too much of a security risk to let the races go ahead.
the risk/possibility of failure
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The risk of failure for a new product is very high.
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The possibility of failure was sufficiently high for the auditors to warn investors.
took a calculated risk
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The police took a calculated risk in releasing him.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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The greatest risk of conflict is at mealtimes.
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The more times you go up there, the greater the risk .
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If you are one of those patients who are at greater risk from flu, you should try to avoid catching it.
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Just how great those risks were, Roosevelt knew as did few others in the world.
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Unquoted companies are not subject to such disclosure requirements and accordingly represent a greater risk .
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Teenagers often consider themselves immortal, and these young people may be putting themselves at great risk .
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The new provisions hit hardest at the exploration stages of minerals projects, where there is the greatest risk .
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Still, Dave puts his family at great risk , yet takes smart precautions to protect a casual acquaintance.
high
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We accept that a high risk should have a high reward even though this is not always the case in the market place.
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This is a time for high risks .
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One contentious area where ethical controversies abound concerns genetic screening and the detection of high risk groups.
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The possibility of such a mid-plate quake thus carries a much higher risk than one on a plate boundary.
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Despite this high risk of exposure to infection, the reported incidence of clinical cases is small.
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They must not demand a very high cash outlay or demand a very high degree of risk thereby endangering subsistence.
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This, of course, begs the question of who is in the high risk group.
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They reported a 60 % higher risk linked to maternal alcohol consumption.
increased
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Thus the impact of an increased risk of coronary heart disease associated with poor dental health could be substantial.
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Discussion Overall we found that periodontal disease was associated with a small increased risk of coronary heart disease.
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If the acceptance of increased risk is rewarded by a greater return as predicted by the model then should be positive.
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The plastic membrane is treated to prevent this, and animal trials have shown no increased risk of clotting.
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Recent studies have found an increased risk of diseases other than lung cancer in passive smokers.
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For melanoma, it has been shown that the de novo expression of ICAM-1 correlates with an increased risk of metastasis.
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An increased risk of developing gastric cancer after previous vagotomy has also been reported.
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These results suggest that there is an increased risk of osteoporotic fractures at the spine and hip.
low
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The Novartis team used a low risk philosophy, which necessarily cost more, though it provided guarantees against disaster.
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The black buckets styled as builders buckets are useful for cleaning in low risk areas.
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Britain - after the traumas of the 1960s - looked for a modest space policy, low profile and low risk .
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Transplants did not improve the survival chances of patients at low and medium risk of dying on the waiting list.
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It is reinforced further by the fact that they have a low default risk .
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A consequence of the lower risk is that many futures exchanges require lower margins for spreads than for single positions.
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In patients with severe haemorrhage and low surgical risk , surgical intervention was carried out immediately.
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This varies depending on whether you work in a high or low risk area.
potential
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The county council says the waste was not a potential risk to the public.
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Rightly or wrongly, I judged the potential risks in so doing were greater than any possible benefit that I could imagine.
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The significance of such questions can only be assessed in the light of present knowledge and potential benefits weighed against potential risks .
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Initially stimuli are compared in terms of the total numbers of descriptions and potential risks in the protocols.
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Faculty supporters counter that the faculty would still be within the Institute and that the benefits would far outweigh the potential risk .
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The significant main effect of junction type for both descriptions and potential risks is difficult to accommodate within this framework.
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The market has a mechanism for ensuring even that the potential risk of damage to the environment can be costed.
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Addictive disease, as opposed to physiological addiction, it is not a significant potential risk for all human beings.
real
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There can be no real intimacy without risk , but it is difficult to establish trust without risk to demonstrate it.
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The real amount at risk is perhaps only 1 percent to 1. 5 percent of the notional figure, bankers estimate.
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The only real risk to regiments, as against the programme that we have set out, is a change of Government.
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If there is no one to talk it through with, then there is the real risk of hopeless adventure.
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This is a very real risk , and it accounts for some of the initial resistance in both Boston and Tulsa.
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But there are real risks in leaving everything until next spring.
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Spending most of each day in out-of-home care is a real risk factor for a baby.
relative
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The relative risk of developing resistance with each regimen is unknown.
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These workers are the most mobile and have the greatest incentive to evaluate carefully the relative and absolute risks .
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Adjustment of the relative risks for smoking made little difference.
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Treatment in the young has to be decided individually, based on the relative risk and assessment of the most likely mechanism.
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The size of the relative risk strongly suggests a genetic contribution.
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Point estimates for the relative risks were computed by using the observed to expected ratios in the individual exposure groups.
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We used Mantel-Haenzel estimates of relative risk and rate ratios for stratified data.
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Proportional hazards analysis was used to estimate relative risks adjusted for several covariates.
serious
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Most patients coming to hospital after an overdose are not at serious risk .
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Both the capability-building priority and the unusual time commitments bore serious risks to their professional advancement and reward.
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Under that case the accused must take an obvious and serious risk .
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This material is at serious risk of being stolen.
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He took a much greater and more serious risk , one which his relatives to this day gloss over or fudge.
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With that political cover, the White House figured it could authorize the move without serious risk .
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At worst, it could have been a serious health risk or even life-threatening.
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Therefore, it can be said that there need not be an obvious and serious risk of death in reckless manslaughter.
■ NOUN
assessment
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Hronek also performs site-specific safety and risk assessment consultations for government and organizations.
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Let us now consider some of the economic and political factors generally incorporated into country risk assessment models applicable to non-OECD countries.
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Authorised conditions of disposal can be recorded together with any associated risk assessments .
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Clean technology - assessing the benefits Quantitative risk assessment has been employed to aid safety management decisions for many years.
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Furthermore, the scales at which population estimates are often required means that even EDs are too coarse for risk assessments .
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Comply with Regulations Engineering standards and Codes of Practice can be thought of as the result of generic risk assessments .
factor
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These risk factors accounted for about one third of the grade differences in sickness absence.
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The risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome within groups were remarkably similar.
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Decades of research on a major scale points the finger at cholesterol as one of the key risk factors for heart disease.
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If the patient is over 40 or has risk factors for colon carcinoma, a barium enema is prudent.
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Other risk factors , not related to ethnicity, probably explain remaining differences between Maori and non-Maori children.
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Effect of combinations of risk factors Risk factors identified by univariate analysis were examined in pairs to determine their effect on healing.
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Between 5.2 and around 6 is an intermediate zone which is fine provided the patient has no other risk factors .
health
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Are the long-term health risks of playing through injury explained to, and understood by, players?
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All have policies allowing women of child-bearing age to transfer to other jobs if they are concerned about health risks .
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I find it very sad that the traditional weekend by the sea cam now be considered a health risk .
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The health risks of dieting should be more of an issue for her.
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The environment minister, Michael Meacher, conceded that the pyres could be a health risk .
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But legal restrictions can significantly increase health risks as abortion services are driven underground.
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Its radiation emissions are said to be a severe health risk to local residents.
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Some people began early on to hint that fat was a health risk .
management
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Several have human resources consultancies, while Eversheds recently set up a risk management consultancy.
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Mr Wilson, 41 years old, had been general manager of risk management .
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The objective is to instil an awareness of risk issues and basic methods of risk management .
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It will use Equifax's on-line risk management system to authorise card transactions.
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Mr Dickie is one of a growing band of marketing consultants, advising farming companies on risk management .
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Table 2 lists managements practices which have been found to correlate with effective risk management.
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The Guidelines are neither a technical code of practice nor a manual for risk management .
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Yet with the development of improved risk management techniques, they find that much of the technological infrastructure is already in place.
premium
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This model is also used to derive a theoretical expression for the risk premium .
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Capital market theory implies that, for index futures, there is a risk premium .
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This is reflected by the inclusion of the risk premium factor.
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If then follows that the sign of the risk premium can not be decided apriori.
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If traders are risk-averse , as volatility increases, the size of any risk premium will also tend to increase.
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Next, the issue of whether the return on a futures contract includes a risk premium is examined.
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The market return minus the risk-free return is the risk premium that investors expect for investing in the market portfolio.
rating
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To explore this possibility subjects gave risk ratings for the stimuli after completing the main experiment.
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The risk ratings come from Morningstar.
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The risk rating is a statistical measure of the probability of failure for companies with negative Z-Score.
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The risk ratings of recent failures are also provided in Table 1.
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Accident estimates and risk ratings are strongly related for individual subjects.
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The data for risk ratings and accident estimates were considered separately and are plotted in Figures 4.1 and 4.2 respectively.
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One subject used a wide range of accident estimates but gave a risk rating of one at all 40 junctions.
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The actual distribution of responses across the 20 possible risk ratings and 21 possible accident estimates is shown in Figure 3.2.
security
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Bobby Kennedy declared Sinatra's home a security risk , and the President had to cancel his stay at the Sinatra mansion.
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Windows 95 users will want to explore some built-in security risks in that software.
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Decorative projecting bricks, alcoves, wrought iron gates, and so on, are a security risk .
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It is hard for me to imagine how you could say they present a security risk .
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The Northern authorities confirmed tonight they wouldn't be switching the tie despite the obvious security risk .
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The investigations are intended to prevent spies, criminals, security risks and other undesirables from entering government.
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Apparently they regarded Churchill as a poor security risk .
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On paper, Jack Edward Dunlap was the ideal security risk .
■ VERB
associate
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However, even relatively rhythmic and non-contact activities may be associated with substantial injury risks .
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Fund investors should have large concerns about the liquidity of their investments and the associated risk .
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A key question concerns the types of social contact that may be associated with a high risk of transmission of P cepacia.
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People hold domestic deposits despite the higher interest rate on offshore deposits because they associate greater political risk with offshore deposits.
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Co-trimoxazole was associated with lower risks of severe events in all strata.
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In pregnancy and obesity, increased fasting and postprandial residual gall bladder volumes are associated with increased risk of gall stone formation.
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However, it is also associated with excess risk as a cause of marital breakdown.
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Clozapine, for example, appears to be associated with reduced risk of relapse.
avoid
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The operation will be strictly controlled to avoid any further risks .
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Similarly, Y is the average value per injury avoided by reducing risk .
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Even a predator as powerful as a tiger wants to avoid risk of damage to itself.
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Our method for avoiding risk is to have little exposure to tech.
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However, Mr Komura on Tuesday said that his ministry would now study ways of avoiding this risk .
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The duty in the law of negligence is not a duty to exercise reasonable care to avoid risk of causing injury.
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A suitable form of wording could be devised to avoid the risk of inviting a flood of claims, spurious or genuine.
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If so, now is a good time to remove the safety-tab from the cassette to avoid the risk of accidental erasure.
calculate
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Odds ratios were calculated for the risk of fracture in the arthritic women.
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Delegation truly involved interpersonal judgment, taking calculated risks on whom to trust.
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It was a calculated risk , like all voyages into the unknown.
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They tend to set moderately difficult goals for themselves and to take calculated risks . 3.
carry
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These procedures carry the risk of introducing further infection into the biliary tree.
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The possibility of such a mid-plate quake thus carries a much higher risk than one on a plate boundary.
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Looking down carries the further risk of making him unaware of other dangers around him.
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Williams cautioned that vigorous exercise can carry risks .
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Most government agencies provide up to 90 percent cover, with the exporter carrying the balance of risk himself.
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That, they knew, carried with it great risks early in the war.
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Parent company guarantees Joining an overseas subsidiary, for example, carries potential risks .
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It was a response that carried considerable risk .
eliminate
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A few precautions are advisable to eliminate any risk that may exist in a domestic situation.
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This will lower but not eliminate the risk of infection.
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In any event, the new regulations can not eliminate the risk to taxi drivers.
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Research will never eliminate risk , but it minimizes it.
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For the bureaucracy itself, Marx noted how a Bonapartist regime virtually eliminated the risk of public scrutiny and criticism.
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In contrast, the engineer's ambition is to control, to organise, to plan and to eliminate risks .
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In modern portfolio theory this is defined as the extent to which the construction of the portfolio has eliminated non-market risk .
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Nevertheless, it will eliminate the risk of misunderstanding if you and your employer discuss retirement specifically.
increase
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Hypothesis Power lines, cancer and cyclotron resonance Living close to overhead power lines may increase the risk of cancer in humans.
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Third, it would seriously increase the risk of default on our national debt.
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However, installing a medium or large computer with pre-packaged software severely increases the risk .
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For two decades, research has re-ported that anger is related to an increased risk of heart attack.
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And going it alone in this kind of way increases the risks as well as limiting choice.
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Controlling for the other variables, Thaler and Rosen found a clear systematic tendency for wage rates to rise with increasing risk .
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Increasing risks and decreasing opportunities tend to be interrelated, of course: better protection and surveillance decrease opportunities by increasing perceived risks.
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The study found two groups of patients that could be successfully treated for pneumonia as outpatients with no increased risk .
involve
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Buyers who habitually purchase supplies from one supplier may recognise that change involves unwarranted risk .
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Covert sensitization requires no special equipment, involves minimal risk to patients, and can easily be conducted on an outpatient basis.
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This is known as trading in maturities, but, however, it does involve an element of risk for a bank.
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Creativity inevitably involves taking risks , and, in Great Groups, it is understood that the risk taker will sometimes stumble.
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However, the investment in all assets except for short-term government debt involves some degree of risk .
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Staying will involve great risks , of which both the victim and the church should be aware.
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Many sales situations involve risk to the buyer.
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While sometimes it can lead to more control, it also involves great risk and therefore stress.
minimize
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Systematic evaluation and forecasting can minimize risks but never eliminate them.
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Victims tend to minimize the risk they are experiencing.
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This caution obviously arises from the need to minimize the risk of long-term side-effects caused by seemingly innocent new substances.
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No criticism attaches to the effort of the modern corporation to minimize risk .
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Where possible, information on an issue was collected from several different respondents to minimize the risk of bias.
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It tormented him to think that something might happen in his absence, and he made every effort to minimize the risks .
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This organic staining method was chosen to minimize the risk of contamination by inorganic elements.
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A risk management program means all programs to minimize extraordinarily hazardous accident risks.
pose
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In its solid form it poses no great risk .
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That poses a big risk for the Bells.
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Under the convention, seals can only be killed if they pose a risk to fish or fishing equipment.
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They blocked efficient economic combinations that posed no competitive risk to anyone, except the merging parties' slower-footed rivals.
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Regulators say that although the erosion does not pose an immediate risk , they are concerned about its long-term safety implications.
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In some areas of the park the vegetation is tinder dry and poses a real risk of a serious moorland fire.
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Illiteracy poses greater military risks than this.
put
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If your partner has not been faithful, then your partner is at risk which also puts you at risk.
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They know that all that would be put at risk if there were the prospect of a Labour Government.
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And that puts everyone at risk - not just yours truly.
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The accused need not realise that he is putting some one at risk: Seymour.
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The coal's importers deny they're putting miners jobs at risk .
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They tell us that they only do dope occasionally, a factor that potentially puts them at greater risk .
putt
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Not only was she putting herself at risk but also her family, by carrying home all sorts of germs.
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Teenagers often consider themselves immortal, and these young people may be putting themselves at great risk .
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They are putting lives at risk , and the ones who pay are us, here at the mercy of the government.
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I wouldn't hesitate to tell an overweight, unfit man that he was putting his health at risk .
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The accused need not realise that he is putting some one at risk: Seymour.
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The coal's importers deny they're putting miners jobs at risk .
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Misuse through ignorance can result in your getting lost, flying into controlled airspace, and putting other aircraft at risk .
reduce
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We can even take charge of your entire logistics function, so you can redeploy assets, gain flexibility, reduce risk .
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Pentagon officials say they have already had some success reducing the risk that nuclear materials will fall into the wrong hands.
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Zoos have been advised by the Ministry of Agriculture to take steps to reduce the risk of infection.
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Sluggish economic growth means interest rates will stay low amid tepid demand for loans and a reduced risk of accelerating inflation.
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Indeed, the lower the blood pressure the better, because statistically it reduces the subsequent risks of stroke and heart attacks.
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The women featured in the article are reducing their risk of chronic disease by exercising and by eating a balanced diet.
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It is additional information that should not be neglected but used in a valid manner in the process of reducing overall risk .
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Meanwhile, stretching and toning reduce the risk of injury by warming up the muscles while improving flexibility.
run
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Knowledge of a risk does not equal consent to run that risk.
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Up to now, the conventional wisdom has been that Clinton would run considerable risk by opposing the initiative.
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A feeling that I had run a terrible risk and now everything was going to be all right.
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Pitch your bid too high and you run the risk of driving your opponent away from the negotiating table.
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To adopt too critical or enquiring a position at this stage would be to run the risk of alienation.
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If you do, you run the risk of permanent blindness.
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If a council crossed an upper threshold implied by them it ran the risk of being capped.
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To do so would run the risk of compromising the most vulnerable part of the operation.
take
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Once the sparring is over, both teams I feel will take risks .
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He took uncommon risks , performed unlikely deeds.
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You never minded taking a risk , and, of course, that's what it is.
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Who would drive us there and how could we possibly pay some one enough to take such a risk ?
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Without taking this risk , the potential for our prophetic communication role to fall into the abyss of irrelevance is very great.
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The authors' advice: Keep your goal and needs in sight, think fast and be prepared to take risks .
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Dalton seems willing to take greater risks .
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They took a risk , gambled with their reputations.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a calculated risk/gamble
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Investing in high-tech companies is a calculated risk.
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But it is a calculated risk.
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He just took a calculated risk on the spur of the moment.
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Injured Stephen Pears, who took a calculated gamble with a cheekbone injury, was never tested in goal.
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It was a calculated risk to take a man without forensic experience, but we were looking for a manager primarily.
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It was a calculated risk, like all voyages into the unknown.
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These high-handed tactics were obviously risky, but they were a calculated risk.
element of surprise/truth/risk/doubt etc
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I like the element of risk.
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If Weaver had been watching as Liz Spalding had been smuggled into the house, then the element of surprise was lost.
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It contains a major element of truth, even if it is not precisely the truth which its originators intended.
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The element of risk gave it an added excitement.
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There is an element of truth in all of these.
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There were elements of truth in this critique, Jim supposed.
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Web browsers, once limited to displaying text and graphics and downloading files, have created an entirely new element of risk.
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What I do is count on the element of surprise.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A lot of children start smoking without realizing what the risks are.
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Clean the wound thoroughly to reduce the risk of infection.
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Drivers often break the speed limit, and there's little risk of getting caught.
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How much risk is there with this kind of operation?
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It is possible to get malaria in this area, but the risk is pretty low.
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Many of these beaches are not clean, and they carry a high risk of viral infection for swimmers.
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Nothing worthwhile is accomplished without risk or danger.
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People continue to smoke, despite knowing the risks of heart disease or cancer.
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The disease affects cats but there is no risk to humans.
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There are a lot of risks involved when you start your own business.
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There is a high risk of injury in contact sports such as rugby.
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We can't ignore the risk that fighting could spread throughout the region.
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Wearing a seatbelt can reduce the risk of serious injury.
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What exactly is the risk of an ordinary aircraft crashing?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A high-technology firm, for example, faces a great deal more business risk than does an electric utility.
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Among middle-class women, early marriage played a similar role in increasing risk of depression.
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For high risk junctions increasing exemplar risk is associated with an increase in the amount of information described.
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Mantel-Haenszel weights were used for summary risk ratio estimates.
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Similarly, they share the risks and the profits or losses which may accrue to them.
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The increased risk for acute lymphoid leukemia alone was 43 %, the researchers said.
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The whole point is adventure and calculated risk taking.
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Trading Bonds for a pitcher is an unacceptable risk because pitchers break down so frequently.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
glance
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When there was no answer she risked a glance .
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But as she walked off I risked a glance at Alan.
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She risked a glance back over her shoulder.
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Karen risked a glance over the balcony wall.
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The next time Anna had to scramble after the ball, she risked a glance at mummy.
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Belinda risked a cautious glance at him, but met only an unreadable profile.
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Masklin risked a glance at Grandson Richard's face.
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Isabel flattened herself, only risking a glance over her shoulder when she felt Guy's weight lift off her.
job
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People could not be expected to risk their jobs for a colleague.
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Young clerks in the law office that he cleaned risked their jobs by teaching the attractive child to read and write.
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But don't blame yourself - you couldn't have been expected to warn me and risk your own job .
life
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They risk their lives to do so.
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With the one the bird is risking its life , with the other only a meal.
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There are movements afoot at every hour of every day, there are men and women risking their lives .
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They risked their lives and signed petitions even in the most repressive states.
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Every time a lifeboatman puts to sea, he risks his life .
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Don McCullin says that when he was young he thought it exciting and glamorous to risk his life .
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Wilson risked his life that night and came in through the back.
limb
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Villeneuve, who had collided with Ralf Schumacher, gets paid £10MILLION for risking life and limb in Formula One.
money
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We know we've got a superb quality product that's why we're happy to risk our money to prove it.
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A wealthy partner risks money on the prudence of less affluent partners.
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An audience increasingly unwilling to risk its money on new and unknown foreign film-makers also takes its toll.
neck
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It is years since I risked my neck .
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On another occasion Moore, notoriously edgy about risking his neck , had to film with crocodiles in the Everglades.
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With prize money declining, he laments that most of the time jump jockeys risk their necks for £150.
wrath
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The local shop girls never risked her wrath .
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He decided to risk the wrath of the hospital authorities.
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Mrs Gore even risked the wrath of the record industry by campaigning to have warning labels put on particularly offensive records.
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I will not risk Penumbra's wrath .
■ VERB
decide
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He decided to risk the wrath of the hospital authorities.
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She decided to risk going out; she would soon be too weak to move.
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The advisers decided they couldn't risk it.
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The Owens must now decide whether to risk further expense by appealing.
want
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Nobody wanted to risk losing that interview.
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Perhaps I did not want to risk losing this special relationship we shared.
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Maurice probably didn't want to risk her objecting to the surrender of Tristram's letters.
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Lewis said deputies did not want to risk injuring the protesters by using grinders to cut through their metal sleeves.
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Was that because Theo didn't want to risk his precious name in the Paris art world?
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No one wanted to risk being shot in a fast-draw duel.
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I suppose they didn't want to risk him bringing it up first.
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Both sides had what they wanted , and neither wanted to risk large casualties to seize what the other had.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Companies cannot risk losing customers through computer problems.
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He risked a cautious glance over the wall, and saw a group of guards standing by the gate.
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He had risked his own health to help the sick during the epidemic.
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I decided to risk looking for a place to stay when I got there, rather than booking in advance.
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I don't want to risk offending your parents.
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Many refugees risk death or arrest in their attempts to flee persecution.
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Road conditions were supposed to be pretty bad, but we decided to risk it.
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The Carnegie Hero awards are given to those who risk their lives to save others.
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The university has already cut its budget as much as possible without risking its quality and reputation.
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They had risked death in order to get their families to America.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For example, committing to clear performance objectives risks both clear success and clear failure.
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He was still too attached to his national status to risk it by appearing partisan.
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It was refreshing to hear publishers and booksellers risking offending each other.
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Once he started wandering aimlessly, a trainee risked disturbing the gods at play.
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One thing you never did was correct Nivea and risk being called a young miss-know-it-all.
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They risk arrest but have the support of some Civil Guards.
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You also see them risking accident and injury in car lanes, weaving in and out of traffic.