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hazard: a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune; "drinking alcohol is a health hazard" a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury; "he saw the rewards but not the risks of crime"; "there was a danger he would do the wrong thing" expose to a chance of loss or damage; "We risked losing a lot of money in this venture"; "Why risk your life?"; "She laid her job on the line when she told the boss that he was wrong" the probability of becoming infected given that exposure to an infectious agent has occurred gamble: take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; "When you buy these stocks you are gambling"
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Risk is the potential harm that may arise from some present process or from some future event. It is often mapped to the probability of some event which is seen as undesirable. Usually the probability of that event and some assessment of its expected harm must be combined into a believable scenario (an outcome) which combines the set of risk, regret and reward probabilities into an expected value for that outcome. ...
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Risk is a commercial turn-based strategy board game produced by Parker Brothers, a division of Hasbro. It shares many characteristics with wargames, yet relative to other war games, Risk is simple and abstract. ...
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| risk management |
Generally, risk management is the process of measuring, or assessing risk and then developing strategies to manage the risk. In general, the strategies employed include transferring the risk to another party, avoiding the risk, reducing the negative affect of the risk, and accepting some or all of the consequences of a particular risk. ...
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| risk factor |
Something that may increase the chance of developing a disease. Some examples of risk factors for cancer include age, a family history of certain cancers, use of tobacco products, certain eating habits, obesity, exposure to radiation or other cancer-causing agents, and certain genetic changes.
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