Risk-taking
adj, noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The practice or tendency of doing things that are risky or have uncertain outcomes. uncountable
"Unfortunately, these are the types of risks kids and teens are most likely to take, when risk-taking can seem like a cool way to be independent or escape problems."
Adjective
- 1 Prone to engaging in risky behaviour or unafraid to do things with uncertain outcomes.
"We're actually quite a risk-taking species, as species go: and because of that we've managed, in the space of little more than 100,000 years, to go from being a bunch of monkeys (hominids, if you want to be strictly correct about this) somewhere in Africa to more or less total world domination. Not to mention flying to the moon."
Example
More examples"Tom has tempered the excesses of his financial risk-taking."
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