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| Domain | Definition |
Health | Undertaking a task involving a challenge for achievement or a desirable goal in which there is a lack of certainty or a fear of failure. It may also include the exhibiting of certain behaviors whose outcomes may present a risk to the individual or to those associated with him or her. (references) |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Research has also shown that drug use can interfere with judgement about risk-taking behavior, and can potentially lead to reduced precautions about having sex, the sharing of needles and injection paraphernalia, and the trading of sex for drugs, by both men and women. (references) | |
Economic History | Venezuela | The crisis was the result of deregulation and lax supervision, which led to increased risk-taking and insider lending by commercial banks. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Families felt helpless in the face of mounting inflation and the indignity of taxes that reduced reward for hard work, thrift, and risk-taking. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "RISK-TAKING" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 69.23% of the time. "RISK-TAKING" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 69.23% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 30.77% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "RISK-TAKING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | рискованное действие. (various references) | |
Thai | การเล่นเสี่ยง. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-i-k-k-n-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: kartings, skirting, striking, traiking. | |
-3 letters: airings, airting, arising, gastrin, gratins, griskin, kainits, karting, raising, ratings, risking, skating, skiting, staking, staring, takings, tasking. | |
-4 letters: airing, asking, gainst, gaskin, giants, grains, grants, gratin, gratis, instar, irking, isatin, kainit, kiangs, kiting, kraits, raisin, raking, rasing, rating, rising, santir, sating, siring, siting, skiing, strain, strang, string, taking. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-i-k-k-n-r-s-t" | |
+2 letters: kickstarting. | |
+4 letters: strikebreaking. | |
+5 letters: strikebreakings. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Usage: Commercial 2. Quotations: Non-fiction 3. Quotations: Speeches 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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