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high-risk

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. bad, risky, high-risk, speculativeadjective

    not financially safe or secure

    "a bad investment"; "high risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky"; "speculative business enterprises"

Wiktionary

  1. high-riskadjective

    Having a great risk.

  2. Etymology: From high + risk.

ChatGPT

  1. high-risk

    High-risk generally refers to a situation, condition, venture, investment, action, or behavior that poses a significant potential for negative or adverse results, such as harmful or dangerous consequences, financial loss, injury, or damage. This often involves a high level of uncertainty or unpredictability.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of high-risk in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of high-risk in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of high-risk in a Sentence

  1. Charlie Richter:

    We believe our unique TB Detection Rat technology will prove itself as an effective mass-screening tool, we then aim to expand the program to all prisons, shantytowns, factories and other settings in Tanzania, Mozambique and other high TB-burden countries, as well as in high-risk groups such as those individuals living with HIV/AIDS. This will improve and save lives all over the globe at a low cost.

  2. Elizabeth Hoff:

    Cholera is a high risk (in Syria), particularly after the outbreak that we have seen in Iraq ... We are facing this by deploying rapid diagnostic tests into many of the areas but access is not easy.

  3. Forest Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem:

    The reason it is recommended is to provide protection for the patient. Transplant patients are at high risk for severe illness if they do n’t have preexisting immunity prior to being transplanted.

  4. Aswath Damodaran:

    Uber is adopting the shock and awe strategy, i think it's a very high risk strategy.

  5. Inspector General:

    What we had on August 2 on this base was a highly difficult, high-risk scenario.


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