Usually means: Dangers, risks causing potential harm.
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  1. perils: Merriam-Webster
  2. perils: Collins English Dictionary
  3. perils: Vocabulary.com
  4. Perils, perils: Wordnik
  5. perils: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. perils: Wiktionary
  7. perils: Dictionary.com
  8. perils: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. perils: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. perils: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. perils: Legal dictionary

(Note: See peril as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (peril)

noun:  A situation of serious and immediate danger.
noun:  Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.
noun:  (insurance) An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to be in danger; to imperil; to risk.
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