(finance) An investment risk that can be mitigated by diversification of an asset portfolio.

Alternative form of non-diversifiable risk

(colloquial, humorous) To take a risk for the chance of some benefit or reward.

plural of risk society

(sociology) A modern human society focused on possible future outcomes and what could go wrong.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see risk, aversion. / Tendency of a decision-maker to prefer a certain payoff to one of greater expected value but more uncertainty.

(often followed by of) to risk something important.

plural of existential risk

plural of x-risk

Alternative form of x-risk