Word.ws English Dictionary

risk on

risk on is the alternative form of risk-on.

Meaning of risk-on

Noun

risk-on (uncountable)

  1. A mode of investment behavior in which investors shift low-risk investments to more profitable high-risk investments.
    • In a risk-on environment, they then sell those currencies and use the proceeds to buy risk assets with greater price appreciation potential. In a risk-off environment, they're compelled to sell their risk assets and buy back those funding currencies that they previously sold.2011, Brian Dolan, Currency Trading For Dummies, →ISBN, page 98

Questions about risk on

What is risk on the alternative form of?
Risk on is the alternative form of risk-on.

Words near risk on in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: risk on (page history and authors); risk-on (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “risk on.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/risk_on. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.