adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a risky investment (= in which you are likely to lose money )
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Risky investments usually have higher yields.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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as
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My final solution to the problem was a bit risky , but not as risky as the alternatives - or so I thought!
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Of course, moving on to the internet is perceived as risky .
highly
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To plan a whole town at once was a highly risky investment.
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Projecting numbers like gross domestic product and per-capita income back into the past is a highly risky undertaking.
how
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What is more, financial intermediaries may have the expertise to be able to assess just how risky a loan is.
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How much should investors know about how risky their bond funds are or will be?
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This example illustrates wonderfully how important long-term studies are - and how risky science can be!
less
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The village, he says, will produce an organic method for developing less risky business models and strategies.
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When stock prices are volatile, investors often flee the market in favor of less risky money-market mutual funds.
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These are less risky than individual shares and are easier and cheaper to cash in.
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But next year a little rain would help make this craziest of sports a just little less risky .
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This is so because the lower-cost project may be perceived as being less risky than the higher-cost project.
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But giving £10,000 credit for one month can be less risky than giving £5000 of credit for six months.
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It always seems more practical and less risky to pretend to know more than you do and to insist on your omniscience.
more
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One possibility is that certain junctions are both intrinsically more memorable and more risky than others.
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As a system gets larger the logic becomes more obscure, modification more risky and debugging increasingly problematic.
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Sniffing alone or in dangerous places, such as railway embankments and by canals, can be more risky .
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Shooting a film is more risky than publishing a paperback.
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Open-bridging lending is more risky to lenders than closed bridging.
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The other, much more risky , is to abolish this anti-reform parliament altogether, and call for new elections.
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But he supposed yielding mouths belonged to fast women who might be more risky .
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The reality is a good deal messier and more risky for those managing the change.
most
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For each junction type the value of B is lowest for the most risky exemplars.
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Strangely enough, in the midst of change, the present course may often he the most risky one.
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The most risky sports were rugby, martial arts, soccer, cricket, and hockey.
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Finally, and most risky , there was the possibility of ransoms.
too
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They believe it's too risky .
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These cases are too costly and too risky for most lawyers and most litigants.
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The post was much too risky , so sometimes I was asked to carry funds to Parma on my bicycle.
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It is untested, too risky and too vulnerable to disastrous financial consequences.
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It is billed as the last resort for people who the banks believe are too risky to back.
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Now, those calling the shots for the company began to realize that the whole damn case was getting too risky .
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Thrifts were banned by law from investing in equities which were deemed to be too risky .
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A design team rejected the aerospike concept as too risky .
very
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However, most of the women in our sample would most likely find that a very risky prospect to attempt at present.
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Risky, thought Paul D, very risky .
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Purchasing decisions are often very risky , and can involve an organization in carrying considerable costs.
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Budget maximization is a very risky strategy to adopt if there are going to be budget cuts.
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Making comparisons between brains is a very risky business because there are confounding variables to confuse the issue.
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First, large projects can be very risky for an individual company.
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The drawing suggests a first investment that is very risky for the speculator.
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However, the angle at which it is applied makes it very risky from the point of view of defending yourself.
■ NOUN
business
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The village, he says, will produce an organic method for developing less risky business models and strategies.
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Making bread in northern California, especially in Sonoma County, is risky business .
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The most obvious one would be the will, but murder by advantaged legatees is a risky business .
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Still, buying shares on the way down is a risky business .
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And sometimes that's a risky business .
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After today's memorial service for Earnhardt here, drivers will focus on the risky business that defines their profession.
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But, considering the amount of money you may lay out, buying Koi can also be a risky business .
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Jewellers always did, it was a risky business .
investment
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To plan a whole town at once was a highly risky investment .
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Frequent cancellations, no matter what the excuse, make a diva seem a dangerously risky investment .
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Risky investments do usually have higher yields, and do therefore pay more direct tax than less risky investments.
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Publication of the Myners report may lead to concern that pension funds will begin to take on overly risky investments .
situation
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Then an on-road study found that drivers did indeed recall more central details than would be expected from risky situations .
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The first is an overall tendency for subjects to recall risky situations .
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The second is a tendency for subjects to recall central details of risky situations at the expense of peripheral details.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Risky investments can offer high yields, but also the possibility of greater losses.
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Being self-employed is much more risky than being a wage earner.
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He'll have to land the aircraft in a field. It's risky , but there's no alternative.
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It's always risky leaving your car out on the street overnight.
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Personal insurance is expensive if you plan to take part in a risky sport such as parachuting.
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the risky business of putting a space vehicle into orbit
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The experiments would be too risky to perform on humans.
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The State Department advised its employees that fighting near the borders made it too risky to leave the country.
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Travel in the region is still considered risky .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Any project involving rockets is always risky , but the technology is maturing all the time.
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Goldman typically has shied away from risky startups, preferring to stick with more stalwart institutions such as Chevron Corp.
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However, most of the women in our sample would most likely find that a very risky prospect to attempt at present.
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Projecting numbers like gross domestic product and per-capita income back into the past is a highly risky undertaking.
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There is substantially more information both general and related to risks at the risky junctions than at the less risky ones.
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Though doing so shortly after the Gulf war and in a recession might have seemed risky , Airtours had its reasons.
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Try the risky , potentially spectacular shot, or cut his losses and play safe?