high-risk

adjective

not financially safe or secure

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a bad investment

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high risk investments

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anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky

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speculative business enterprises

• Syn: ↑bad, ↑risky, ↑speculative

• Similar to: ↑unsound

• Derivationally related forms: ↑speculativeness (for: ↑speculative), ↑speculate (for: ↑speculative), ↑risk (for: ↑risky), ↑riskiness (for: ↑risky)

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highˈ-riskˈ adjective

1. Vulnerable to some sort of danger

2. Potentially dangerous

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Main Entry: ↑high

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adj

1 : likely to result in failure, harm, or injury : having a lot of risk

a high-risk [=dangerous] activity

high-risk investments

2 : more likely than others to get a particular disease, condition, or injury

high-risk patients

patients in the high-risk group

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ˌhigh-ˈrisk [high-risk] adjective usually before noun

involving a lot of danger and the risk of injury, death, damage, etc

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a high-risk sport

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high-risk patients

(= who are very likely to get a particular illness)

compare ↑low-risk

 

Example Bank:

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Ideally the technique should be limited to high-risk patients.

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It's a high-risk venture that will require a lot of capital.

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Rock climbing is a high-risk sport that requires special equipment and training.