Usually means: Potential negative outcomes from actions.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word risks:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. risks: Merriam-Webster
  2. risks: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. risks: Collins English Dictionary
  4. risks: Vocabulary.com
  5. Risk's, Risks, risks: Wordnik
  6. risks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Risks, risks: Wiktionary
  8. risks: Dictionary.com
  9. risks: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Risks: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. risks: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. risks: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. risks: Legal dictionary
  3. risks: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. risks: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. risks: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. risks: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. risks: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Risk)

noun:  (uncountable) The probability of a negative outcome to a decision or event.
noun:  (uncountable) The magnitude of possible loss consequent to a decision or event.
noun:  (uncountable, economics, business and engineering) The potential negative effect of an event, determined by multiplying the likelihood of the event occurring with its magnitude should it occur.
noun:  (countable) A possible adverse event or outcome.
noun:  (insurance) A type of adverse event covered under an insurance policy.
noun:  (countable) A thing (from the perspective of how likely or unlikely it is to cause an adverse effect).
noun:  (banking, finance) A borrower (such as a mortgage-holder or person with a credit card).
noun:  (finance) A financial product (typically an investment).
noun:  (insurance) An entity insured by an insurer.
verb:  (transitive) To incur risk of (an unwanted or negative outcome).
verb:  (transitive) To incur risk of harming or jeopardizing.
verb:  (transitive) To incur risk as a result of (doing something).
noun:  A surname.
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