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at-risk

at-risk adjective: vulnerable, especially to abuse or delinquency.

Adjective

at-risk (comparative more at-risk, superlative most at-risk)

  1. vulnerable, especially to abuse or delinquency
    • The actual at-risk population was limited to those directly exposed and could be quarantined or monitored.
    • The main aim was to reduce one aspect of deviancy in a group of adolescent girls, namely at-risk behaviour, by using the method of detached work.2014, Harold Marchant, Helen M. Smith, Jean P. Nursten, Adolescent Girls at Risk

Forms of at-risk

comparativemore at-risk
superlativemost at-risk

Questions about at-risk

What does at-risk mean?
At-risk means vulnerable, especially to abuse or delinquency.
What part of speech is at-risk?
At-risk is an adjective.

Words near at-risk in the dictionary

  1. at-home card
  2. at-home cards
  3. at-homeness
  4. at-large
  5. at-one-ness
  6. at-risk
  7. at-rule
  8. at-rules
  9. at-sign
  10. at-signs
  11. at-ten-shun

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