リスクrisuku

Common
Definitions
  1. nounrisk
    Banks charge higher interest on loans to risky customers.
Synonyms & antonyms
  • Synonym危険きけんNeutralCovers danger, from a present hazard to a future chance of trouble: 「危険な場所」「発病の危険」. 「リスク」 weighs the likelihood and size of a bad outcome: 「事故のリスク」「リスク管理」.
  • Synonym危険性きけんせいWrittenDenotes the likelihood or degree of danger, as in 「危険性が高い」; it skews to written/formal prose, while the loanword 「リスク」 is common in business and finance too.
  • Antonym安全あんぜんNeutralMeans safety, the absence of danger; it stands opposite 「リスク」 in terms of whether risk is present.

Use 「リスク」 when weighing possible losses, as in 「リスクを取る」 or 「リスク管理」. For danger in general say 「危険」; for the likelihood or degree of danger, 「危険性」. The opposite of risk is 「安全」.

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Japanese definitions
  1. 損害そんがい、危害きがい、損傷そんしょう、不利益ふりえきなど悪わるい結果けっかの甚大じんだいさと、それが出現しゅつげんする可能性かのうせいの積せき。悪わるい結果けっかの期待値きたいち。危険度きけんど。
  2. 不ふ確実かくじつの程度ていど。結果けっかの良よい悪わるいに関かかわらず用もちいられる場合ばあいがある。
  3. 危険きけん。【補足ほそく】 狭せまい意味いみの危険きけんとは区別くべつされるべきである。
  4. 【誤用ごよう】損害そんがい。
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