risk-taking en · ADJ
Meanings
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Prone to engaging in risky behaviour or unafraid to do things with uncertain outcomes.
“We are a risk-taking organization,” Kirk said. “We are doing multimillion-dollar deals. We guarantee loans. We could fail. But my view is that Bob Dylan thing, 'He not busy being born is busy dying.'”
2011, Barry Estabrook, Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit, Andrews McMeel, published 2011, →ISBN, page 172:At a cost of an estimated $9 million, The Hire series consists of short movies (five or six minutes) about a risk-taking professional driver driving a BMW.
2008, John Vernon Pavlik, Media in the Digital Age, Columbia University Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 159: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.
2008, Warwick Cairns, How to Live Dangerously: Why We Should All Stop Worrying, and Start Living, Macmillan, published 2008, →ISBN:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most risk-taking | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| risktaking | alternative | lexicographic | |
| more risk-taking | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Translations (4)
fi uskalias (prone to engaging in risky behaviour or unafraid to do things with uncertain outcomes) · es arriesgador (prone to engaging in risky behaviour or unafraid to do things with uncertain outcomes) · es arriesgante (prone to engaging in risky behaviour or unafraid to do things with uncertain outcomes) · fr risqueur (prone to engaging in risky behaviour or unafraid to do things with uncertain outcomes)