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risktaking

risktaking is the alternative form of risk-taking.

Meaning of risk-taking

Adjective

risk-taking (comparative more risk-taking, superlative most risk-taking)

  1. Prone to engaging in risky behaviour or unafraid to do things with uncertain outcomes.
    • We're actually quite a risk-taking species, as species go: and because of that we've managed, in the space of little more than 100,000 years, to go from being a bunch of monkeys (hominids, if you want to be strictly correct about this) somewhere in Africa to more or less total world domination. Not...2008, Warwick Cairns, How to Live Dangerously: Why We Should All Stop Worrying, and Start Living, Macmillan, published 2008, →ISBN

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Questions about risktaking

What is risktaking the alternative form of?
Risktaking is the alternative form of risk-taking.

Words near risktaking in the dictionary

  1. risks one's life and limb
  2. risks one's neck
  3. risksome
  4. risktaker
  5. risktakers
  6. risktaking
  7. riskware
  8. risky
  9. Risley
  10. Risleys
  11. Risner

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