ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Risk-taking

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Risk-taking is an adjective meaning Prone to engaging in risky behaviour or unafraid to do things with uncertain outcomes.

Meaning

Prone to engaging in risky behaviour or unafraid to do things with uncertain outcomes.

More Meanings

  1. The practice or tendency of doing things that are risky or have uncertain outcomes.

Example Sentences

During the development era, Koreans seem to have ignored the increase of risks and, at times, appear to have considered high-stakes risk-taking as heroic.
At a cost of an estimated $9 million, The Hire series consists of short movies (five or six minutes) about a risk-taking professional driver driving a BMW.
Unfortunately, these are the types of risks kids and teens are most likely to take, when risk-taking can seem like a cool way to be independent or escape problems.
“We are a risk-taking organization,” Kirk said. “We are doing multimillion-dollar deals. We guarantee loans. We could fail. But my view is that Bob Dylan thing, 'He not busy being born is busy dying.'”

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Related dictionary entries include adventurous, venture, risk, high-risk, risky, hazard.

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