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moral hazards

moral hazards is the plural of moral hazard.

Meaning of moral hazard

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

Questions about moral hazards

What is moral hazards the plural of?
Moral hazards is the plural of moral hazard.

Words near moral hazards in the dictionary

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

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