risk capital

1. 1.

   wealth available for investment in new or speculative enterprises

   Synonymsventure capital

   Broadercapital

Questions about risk capital

What does risk capital mean?

risk capital means "wealth available for investment in new or speculative enterprises".

What is another word for risk capital?

Close synonyms include venture capital. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is risk capital a common word?

risk capital is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.