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risk management

risk management noun: the process of determining the maximum acceptable level of overall risk to and from a proposed activity, then using risk assessment techniques to determine the initial level of risk and, if this is excessive, developing a strategy to ameliorate appropriate individual risks until the overall level of risk is reduced to an acceptable level.

Noun

risk management (uncountable)

  1. The process of determining the maximum acceptable level of overall risk to and from a proposed activity, then using risk assessment techniques to determine the initial level of risk and, if this is excessive, developing a strategy to ameliorate appropriate individual risks until the overall level of risk is reduced to an acceptable level.
    • 2002: InsTech.info, LLC, A short history of risk management: 1900 - 2002 at http://www.instech.info/utaustin/DOWNLOADS/Hist_of_RM_2002.pdf
      1921: Frank Knight publishes Risk, Uncertainty and Profit, a book that becomes the keystone in the risk management library.
    • a2006: University of Surrey website, Risk Management History read at https://web.archive.org/web/20080529083848/http://portal.surrey.ac.uk/portal/page?_pageid=823,181134&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
      Even if it has deeper foundations, risk management, as it is practiced today, is essentially a...

risk management meaning in Tamil

risk management in Tamil

மறைஇடர் மேலாண்மை

Questions about risk management

What does risk management mean?
Risk management means the process of determining the maximum acceptable level of overall risk to and from a proposed activity, then using risk assessment techniques to determine the initial level of risk and, if this is excessive, developing a strategy to ameliorate appropriate individual risks until the overall level of risk is reduced to an acceptable level.
What is risk management in Tamil?
Risk management in Tamil is மறைஇடர் மேலாண்மை. See Risk management meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is risk management?
Risk management is a noun.

Words near risk management in the dictionary

  1. risk equalisation
  2. risk factor
  3. risk it for the biscuit
  4. risk it to get the biscuit
  5. risk life and limb
  6. risk management
  7. risk off
  8. risk on
  9. risk one's life
  10. risk one's life and limb
  11. risk one's neck

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