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say it: risk
risk is a noun and verb meaning "a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune". It carries 6 recorded senses.
a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
“drinking alcohol is a health hazard”
the probability of becoming infected given that exposure to an infectious agent has occurred
the probability of being exposed to an infectious agent
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”
take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
“When you buy these stocks you are gambling”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for risk come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.