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(management) The risk of employees spending significant effort looking busy with an activity at the expense of measuring progress toward what the activity is ultimately supposed to achieve.
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(accounting) A service which is unused by a customer, such as an unredeemed gift card, which therefore represents a pure profit to the seller.
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A risk that may be taken, in the absence of complete information, after careful consideration of the likelihood and impact of failure in comparison to the rewards of success.
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Harm to innocent people that results from policy decisions.
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Exposure to likely harm; peril.
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A loss incurred by failing to compete.
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An act of hesitation as to proceeding; a scruple; also, a suspension of action or decision; a pause, a stop.
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(obsolete) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
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(obsolete) To be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit.
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The act of putting someone into danger, or the condition of being in danger.
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The act of eschewing something.
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A risk which could destroy or permanently damage an entity; a risk to one's existence.
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The act or condition of being at risk of financial losses.
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A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).
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A characteristic, positive or negative or both, which subjects a person or thing to increased risk of danger.
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To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
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To violate; to breach; to break.
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(intransitive) To become bankrupt.
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The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
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(idiomatic) To make a guess; to guess.
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(statistics, medicine) A measure of the chance of an event in one group compared to that of another at a particular time or over a subset of a study's time; the ratio between two groups' hazard rates.
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One who ventures or hazards.
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(obsolete) A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard.
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(transitive) To risk or hazard.
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(archaic) Alternative form of endanger [(transitive) To put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to.]
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An information hazard; a piece of information which can be used to cause harm by one who knows it.
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(philosophy) A risk arising from the dissemination of true information.
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(transitive, archaic) To put in jeopardy; to expose to loss or injury
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(archaic) One who jeopardizes.
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The act of jeopardizing; the placing of something into jeopardy; risking.
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(US) To put in jeopardy, to threaten.
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Danger of loss, harm, or failure.
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The situation where people who did not contribute to something expect a share of the reward or credit.
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(Britain) A help desk or department in a store, mall, or other such facility where customers who have lost an item can inquire as to whether it has been found and turned in; a lost and found.
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(obsolete) A venture which stands the best likelihood of success; a risk; fortune (of a person, country etc.).
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(law) To fail to appear or answer.
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To endanger (someone or something); to imperil or jeopardize.
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(intransitive, obsolete) Of an event, to happen unfortunately.
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The number of people, statistically, who must be exposed to something in order for one of them to experience an adverse effect.
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A substantial risk to a worker's physical or mental well-being which is present in a certain task, job, or profession.
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Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.
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(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.
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The determination of the potential impact of an individual risk by measuring or otherwise assessing both the likelihood that it will occur and the impact if it should occur, and then combining the result according to an agreed rule to give a single measure of potential impact.
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(rare) Misconstruction of risk life and limb [To do something dangerous that will risk someone's existence together with his or her body faculties (used to emphasize and often overstate the danger associated with an action).]
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To carry out a risk assessment.
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A person who takes risk, especially to reap the benefits if the feared event does not happen.
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Obsolete spelling of risk [(uncountable) The probability of a negative outcome to a decision or event.]
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An indication of potential or imminent danger.
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(transitive) To act in violation of some law.
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(law) An activity that is so dangerous that any person engaging in it will be held strictly liable for harm caused by engaging in the activity, no matter what precautions were taken to prevent harm; common examples include using explosives, radiation, and poisonous chemicals, and handling wild animals.
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