risk of exposure

1. 1.

   the probability of being exposed to an infectious agent

   Synonymsrisk

   Broaderprobability

Questions about risk of exposure

What does risk of exposure mean?

risk of exposure means "the probability of being exposed to an infectious agent".

What is another word for risk of exposure?

Close synonyms include risk. 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 of exposure a common word?

risk of exposure 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.