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  • 1danger — n Danger, peril, jeopardy, hazard, risk mean either the state or fact of being threatened with loss of life or property or with serious injury to one s health or moral integrity or the cause or source of such a threat. Danger is the general term… …

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  • 2Danger — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Danger >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 danger danger peril insecurity jeopardy risk hazard venture precariousness slipperiness Sgm: N 1 instability instability &c. 149 Sgm: N 1 …

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  • 3danger — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Exposure to injury Nouns 1. danger, peril, jeopardy, risk, hazard, threat, adventure, insecurity, precariousness, slipperiness; Russian roulette (see chance). 2. (vulnerability to danger) exposure,… …

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  • 4risk — n. & v. n. 1 a chance or possibility of danger, loss, injury, or other adverse consequences (a health risk; a risk of fire). 2 a person or thing causing a risk or regarded in relation to risk (is a poor risk). v.tr. 1 expose to risk. 2 accept the …

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  • 5risk — The probability that an event will occur. attributable r. the rate of a disease or other outcome in exposed individuals that can be attributed to the exposure. competing r. an event that removes a subject from being at r. for an outcome under… …

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  • 6danger — dangerless, adj. /dayn jeuhr/, n. 1. liability or exposure to harm or injury; risk; peril. 2. an instance or cause of peril; menace. 3. Obs. power; jurisdiction; domain. [1175 1225; ME da(u)nger < AF; OF dangier, alter. of dongier (by influence&#8230; …

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  • 7danger — dan•ger [[t]ˈdeɪn dʒər[/t]] n. 1) liability or exposure to harm or injury; risk; peril 2) an instance or cause of peril; menace 3) Obs. power; jurisdiction; domain • Etymology: 1175–1225; &LT; OF dangier, alter. of dongier (by influence of dam&#8230; …

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  • 8at risk — IN DANGER, in peril, in jeopardy, under threat. → risk * * * phrasal : in a state or condition marked by a high level of risk or susceptibility : in danger mistakes that put astronauts lives at risk M.R.Beschloss patients at risk of infection&#8230; …

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  • 9in danger — adjective a) in a dangerous position or place. put someones life in danger b) exposed to risk Ant: safe …

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  • 10assumption of risk — as·sump·tion of risk: a doctrine that a person may in advance relieve another person of the obligation to act towards him or her with due care and may accept the chance of being injured; also: an affirmative defense that the plaintiff cannot&#8230; …

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