Derisk

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To remove the risk from; to make safe. transitive

    "Thus, rather than paying for the perceptions (no doubt valid) of higher risk, the challenge is to derisk the situation."

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"Thus, rather than paying for the perceptions (no doubt valid) of higher risk, the challenge is to derisk the situation."

Etymology

From de- + risk.

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