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moral hazard

moral hazard noun: the prospect that a party insulated from risk may behave differently from the way it would behave if it were fully exposed to the risk.

Noun

moral hazard (usually uncountable, plural moral hazards)

  1. (usually) The prospect that a party insulated from risk may behave differently from the way it would behave if it were fully exposed to the risk.
    • And what about moral hazard—or concern that protecting the system, however errant the behaviour of certain bankers, will encourage more folly in the future?2008 October 4, William Keegan, “Moral hazard? It's just another danger along the capitalist way”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
    • I go to a lot of pro-market think tank events where one speaker or another blames the financial crisis and the current recession on moral hazard, as well as basically everything else that has gone wrong in the last sixty years. I'm afraid I don't see it.2009 December 18, Megan McArdle, “How Big a Problem is Moral Hazard?”, in The Atlantic

moral hazard meaning in Tamil

moral hazard in Tamil

குணவியல்புசார் இடர்

Forms of moral hazard

pluralmoral hazards

Questions about moral hazard

What does moral hazard mean?
Moral hazard means the prospect that a party insulated from risk may behave differently from the way it would behave if it were fully exposed to the risk.
What is moral hazard in Tamil?
Moral hazard in Tamil is குணவியல்புசார் இடர். See Moral hazard meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is moral hazard?
Moral hazard is a noun.
What is the plural of moral hazard?
The plural of moral hazard is moral hazards.

Words near moral hazard in the dictionary

  1. moral fiber
  2. moral fibers
  3. moral fibre
  4. moral fibres
  5. moral futurism
  6. moral hazard
  7. moral hazards
  8. moral high ground
  9. moral high grounds
  10. moral imperative
  11. moral imperatives

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Adapted from Wiktionary: moral hazard (page history and authors); moral hazard (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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