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degree of risk — amount of risk, level of danger … English contemporary dictionary
degree — noun 1 measurement of angles VERB + DEGREE ▪ rotate, spin, turn ▪ I turned the wheel 90 degrees, PREPOSITION ▪ through … degrees ▪ … Collocations dictionary
Risk — The chance that an investment s actual return will be different than expected. Risk includes the possibility of losing some or all of the original investment. Different versions of risk are usually measured by calculating the standard deviation… … Investment dictionary
Risk-Free Asset — An asset which has a certain future return. Treasuries (especially T bills) are considered to be risk free because they are backed by the U.S. government. Because they are so safe, the return on risk free assets is very close to the current… … Investment dictionary
risk management — a feature of clinical governance. Risk management principles are applied to clinical and nonclinical aspects of patient care to increase patient safety by identifying potential hazards, assessing the degree of risk, and reducing the risk or… … The new mediacal dictionary
risk — 1. Probability and severity of loss linked to hazards. 2. See degree of risk. See also hazard; risk management … Military dictionary
Degree of relationship — is a measurement of kinship, and may generally be measured as either one vertical or horizontal step in a standard family tree. A first degree relative is a family member who shares about 50 percent of their genes with a particular individual in… … Wikipedia
Risk — takers redirects here. For the Canadian television program, see Risk Takers. For other uses, see Risk (disambiguation). Risk is the potential that a chosen action or activity (including the choice of inaction) will lead to a loss (an undesirable… … Wikipedia
Risk factors for breast cancer — Risk factors of breast cancer may be divided into preventable and non preventable. Their study belongs in the field of epidemiology. Breast cancer, like other forms of cancer, is considered to result from multiple environmental and hereditary… … Wikipedia
Risk perception — is the subjective judgment that people make about the characteristics and severity of a risk. The phrase is most commonly used in reference to natural hazards and threats to the environment or health, such as nuclear power. Several theories have… … Wikipedia
