risking

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risking

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of risk

noun riskings

  1. The act by which something is risked. Those acts of others will, from the primary actor's perspective, be unjustified; thus, were they undertaken by the primary actor himself, they would be culpable riskings of harm.

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Closest in meaning: bet, hazarding, staking, wager, compromising, endangering, imperilling, jeopardising, jeopardizing, threatening, imperiling, venturing, daring, speculating, braving, adventuring

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@misc{risking_2026,
  title = {risking},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/risking},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}