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risk assessments

risk assessments is the plural of risk assessment.

Meaning of risk assessment

Noun

risk assessment (countable and uncountable, plural risk assessments)

  1. The overall process of identifying all the risks to and from an activity and assessing the potential impact of each risk.
    • BBC News website, Radioactive warning on Fife beach read at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/4974692.stm on 14 May 2006 - Sepa has been carrying out a risk assessment at the bay and now wants a detailed investigation to be carried out.
  2. The determination of the potential impact of an individual risk by measuring or otherwise assessing both the likelihood that it will occur and the impact if it should occur, and then combining the result according to an agreed rule to give a single measure of potential impact.

Questions about risk assessments

What is risk assessments the plural of?
Risk assessments is the plural of risk assessment.

Words near risk assessments in the dictionary

  1. Risis
  2. risk
  3. risk appetite
  4. risk appetites
  5. risk assessment
  6. risk assessments
  7. risk aversion
  8. risk capital
  9. risk creep
  10. risk equalisation
  11. risk factor

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