Usually means: Prefers safety over potential gains.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. risk-averse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. Risk-averse, risk-averse: Wordnik
  3. risk-averse: Wiktionary
  4. risk-averse: Dictionary.com
  5. Risk-averse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Risk-Averse: Financial dictionary

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adjective:  Unwilling to take risks; especially (economics) reluctant to accept a bargain with an uncertain payoff rather than another bargain with a more certain, but possibly lower, expected payoff.

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