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HIGH RISK

Specialty Definition: HIGH RISK

DomainDefinition

Weather

Severe weather is expected to affect more than 10 percent of the area. A high risk is rare, and implies an unusually dangerous situation and usually the possibility of a major severe weather outbreak. (See slight risk, moderate risk, convective outlook.) (of severe thunderstorms). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: HIGH RISK

Specialty definitions using "HIGH RISK": Cargo Selectivity System, Convective OutlookDangerous Behaviorhazardous wasteModerate RiskQUALITY ASSURANCE COORDINATORRabies Vaccines, Retinal Vein OcclusionSlight Risk. (references)

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Modern Usage: HIGH RISK

DomainUsage

Screenplays

You're in an extremely high risk situation, Miss Cullen. (Eraser; writing credit: Tony Puryear; Walon Green)

Movie/TV Titles

High Risk (1988)

Coke Ovens: A High Risk Job (1978)

High Risk (1976)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: HIGH RISK

DomainTitle

Books

  • Status One: Breakthroughs in High Risk Population Health Management (reference)

  • 21st Century Complete Guide to Genetics and Preventive Medicine: CDC Programs on Chronic Disease Prevention, Human Genome Epidemiology, Case Studies on High Risk Families, Genetic Testing and Public Health (reference)

  • A Community Approach to AIDS Intervention: Exploring the Miami Outreach Project for Injecting Drug Users and Other High Risk Groups (Contributions in Medical Studies) (reference)

  • Pcp: High Risk on the Streets (Drug Abuse Prevention) (reference)

  • Psychological Development of High Risk Multiple Birth Children (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: HIGH RISK

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Patients who have a manic episode are at high risk for recurrences. (references)

Some persons at particularly high risk should take more precautions. (references)

A person who is sleepy and drives is at high risk for an automobile crash. (references)

Business

These women face a high risk of drug addiction, AIDS, and other sexually transmitted diseases. (references)

Other examinations, especially for high risk groups, include liver, colon-rectum and breast cancer screening. (references)

Joint Ventures are associated with high risk. This sector is notorious for wild business practices and corruption. (references)

Children

India

It is also concerned about the lack of adequate measures to combat this phenomenon and the lack of adequate rehabilitation measures." Runaway children, especially in larger cities, are at high risk for sexually transmitted diseases and HIV. (references)

Economic History

Israel

Companies encounter difficulties due to the nature of this field: long term, high investment, and high risk. (references)

Nigeria

State governments, in particular, are offering bonds, however, given the profligate spending by state governments in 2001, these bonds must be considered high risk. (references)

Political Economy

PHILIPPINES

ACOS uses a computer system to classify shipments as low-risk (green lane), moderate risk (yellow lane) or high risk (red lane). (references)

Trade

India

In this payment method the exporter runs a high risk of not being paid, and therefore, is only used with buyers who are credit worthy. (references)

New Zealand

Although there is a broad array of suppliers of capital, there still is a scarcity of resources for start-up organizations and other high risk ventures. (references)

Worker Rights

Dominican Republic

COIN administers the Center for Health and Migration Information for Migrant Women that carries out community education campaigns in high risk areas on various issues, including citizenship, legal work requirements, dangers of trafficking, forced prostitution, and domestic servitude. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expressions: HIGH RISK

Expressions using "HIGH RISK": high risk material high risk road user group. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: HIGH RISK

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

high risk loan

382

high risk home owner insurance

20

high risk personal loan

174

high risk hpv

20

high risk pregnancy

170

high risk loan lender

17

high risk auto insurance

96

loan high risk bad credit

14

high risk lender

92

community high risk

14

high risk insurance

87

high risk medical insurance

13

high risk merchant account

86

high risk credit loan

12

high risk auto loan

70

high risk lending

11

high risk credit card

54

high risk motorcycle loan

10

high risk mortgage

49

high risk lender for a personal loan

10

high risk life insurance

40

unsecured high risk loan

9

high risk car insurance

31

high risk credit

9

high risk health insurance

31

high risk youth

9

high risk car loan

30

behavior high risk

8

high risk home loan

29

offshore high risk merchant account

8

high risk mortgage lender

26

high risk insurance quote

8

high risk business loan

26

auto insurance for high risk driver

7

high risk

26

high risk stock

7

high risk mortgage loan

25

high risk financing

7

unsecured personal loan high risk

21

high risk mortgage company

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: HIGH RISK

Language Translations for "HIGH RISK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i rrezikshëm (breakneck, critical, dangerous, endangering, forbidding, hairy, hazardous, malign, nasty, parlous, perilous, pestilent, risky, risque, touch and go, unchancy, unsafe). (various references)

   

Danish

  

højrisikostof (high risk material), højrisiko periode for fremtidige børn (period of high risk where future children are concerned), stærkt udsat barn (high risk child), person tilhørende højrisikogruppe (high-risk people, person at high risk). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

verhoogd risico op afwijkingen bij de nakomelingen bij verhoogde moederleeftijd (period of high risk where future children are concerned), persoon met verhoogd risico (high-risk people, person at high risk), kind met hoge risicofactor (high risk child), educatief materiaal voor minderheidsgroepen met een verhoogde kans op infectie (educational material for cultural groups at high risk of infection). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tulevien lasten kannalta korkeariskinen vaihe (period of high risk where future children are concerned), suuren riskin henkilö (high-risk people, person at high risk), riskihenkilö (high-risk people, person at high risk). (various references)

   

French

  

sujet hauts risques (high-risk people, person at high risk), risque élevé d'incendie (high risk of fire), matière haut risque (high risk material), matériel d'éducation pour groupe culturel haut risque (educational material for cultural groups at high risk of infection), groupe d'usagers de la route haut risque (high risk road user group), enfant risque élevé (high risk child), enfant haut risque (high risk child), âge haut risque pour la descendance (period of high risk where future children are concerned). (various references)

   

German

  

stark gefährdetes Kind (high risk child), Risikokind (high risk child), Aufklärungsmaterial für Gruppen mit hohem Ansteckungsrisiko (educational material for cultural groups at high risk of infection), Alter mit hohem Risiko für die Nachkommen (period of high risk where future children are concerned). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

περίοδος μεγάλου κινδύνου όσον αφορά τα μελλοντικά παιδιά (period of high risk where future children are concerned), παιδί που διατρέχει υψηλό κίνδυνο (high risk child), επιρρεπής σε υψηλό κίνδυνο (high-risk people, person at high risk). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nagy kockázat (long chance). (various references)

   

Italian

  

soggetto ad alto rischio (high-risk people, person at high risk), materiale educativo destinato a gruppi ad alto rischio (educational material for cultural groups at high risk of infection), bambino ad alto rischio (high risk child). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ighhay iskray

   

Portuguese

  

criança de alto risco (high risk child). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

авантюристический (adventuristic, adventurous, high-risk). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

visokorizičan. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sujeto de alto riesgo (high-risk people, person at high risk), niño de alto riesgo (high risk child), material divulgativo para grupos culturales con un elevado nivel de riesgo de contraer la enfermedad (educational material for cultural groups at high risk of infection), individuo de alto riesgo (high-risk people, person at high risk), grave riesgo de incendio (high risk of fire), edad de alto riesgo para la descendencia (period of high risk where future children are concerned). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ålder innebärande högrisk för avkomman (period of high risk where future children are concerned). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: HIGH RISK

Misspellings

"HIGH RISK" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: highrisk. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: HIGH RISK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-h-h-i-i-k-r-s"

-3 letters: girsh, highs, rishi, shirk.

-4 letters: ghis, high, iris, irks, khis, kirs, kris, rigs, risk, shri, sigh.

-5 letters: ghi, his, irk, khi, kir, rig, shh, sir, ski, sri.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: HIGH RISK


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 49 47 48      52 49 53 4B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01001001 01000111 01001000 00100000 01010010 01001001 01010011 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#73 &#71 &#72 &#32 &#82 &#73 &#83 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0049 0047 0048      0052 0049 0053 004B

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

42434142252435345

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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