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risk-assessing

risk-assessing is the present participle and gerund of risk-assess.

Meaning of risk-assess

Verb

risk-assess (third-person singular simple present risk-assesses, present participle risk-assessing, simple past and past participle risk-assessed)

  1. To carry out a risk assessment.
    • That's eminently reasonable and here it requires ScotRail to risk-assess its HSTs with the aim of managing their final years providing a quality service, pending electrification of the seven cities routes.(Can we date this quote?), Nigel Harris, “Comment: Drains, trains and Control”, in RAIL, number 953, page 3

Questions about risk-assessing

What is risk-assessing the present participle and gerund of?
Risk-assessing is the present participle and gerund of risk-assess.

Words near risk-assessing in the dictionary

  1. risk visualization
  2. risk-adverse
  3. risk-assess
  4. risk-assessed
  5. risk-assesses
  6. risk-assessing
  7. risk-averse
  8. risk-aversities
  9. risk-aversity
  10. risk-free
  11. risk-off

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