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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
high-risk
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a high-risk strategy
▪ The expansion plan is a high-risk strategy.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
▪ Planning laws had been tightened to restrict building in high-risk areas.
▪ Earthquake and hurricane insurance would be required in high-risk areas as a contingency to receiving federal aid to rebuild after a disaster.
▪ If you live a high-risk area, the likelihood increases to one in 13.
group
▪ The third high-risk group comprises manual workers without hobbies and interests, whose entire social contact has been based on their workplace.
▪ Our policy is not to give beta blockers to everybody, only those in high-risk groups.
▪ Young adults aged 17 to 20 are also a high-risk group.
▪ Tests are currently confined to high-risk groups such as drug users and homosexuals.
patient
▪ Beta blockade should also be considered in the high-risk patients.
▪ Ornish has demonstrated reversal of artery clogging in high-risk patients.
▪ Bronchoscopy is a time-consuming, hospital-bound procedure; ideally the technique should be limited to high-risk patients.
▪ Of course, high-risk patients should get flu shots.
▪ This study shows the value of clinical follow-up of high-risk patients to detect early thin melanomas.
▪ Other high-risk patients are those undergoing therapy with immunosuppressive agents, anti-cancer drugs and steroids.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ high-risk occupations such as construction work
▪ a high-risk investment
▪ A polio vaccine is recommended before travelling to high-risk areas.
▪ Buying a restaurant is a high-risk investment.
▪ It was a high-risk strategy to attack with such a small number of planes, but it was brilliantly successful.
▪ The AIDS awareness campaign was targeted mainly at high-risk groups, especially drug users and prostitutes.
▪ The drug may help to reduce strokes in high-risk patients.
▪ We are getting the message across to drug users that sharing needles is a high-risk behaviour.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It will be a high-risk enterprise with many more ways of getting it badly wrong than even a bit right.
▪ Merely asking for a genetic test moved her into a high-risk insurance category.
▪ Of course, high-risk patients should get flu shots.
▪ Ornish has demonstrated reversal of artery clogging in high-risk patients.
▪ Should your management bet the company on a high-risk business strategy?
▪ So, for the right person, corporate finance is both a high-risk and high-reward career option.
▪ The third high-risk group comprises manual workers without hobbies and interests, whose entire social contact has been based on their workplace.
▪ Yeltsin, as he is inclined to do when backed into a corner, has taken a high-risk gamble.
Wiktionary
high-risk

a. Having a great risk.

WordNet
high-risk

adj. not financially safe or secure; "a bad investment"; "high risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky"; "speculative business enterprises" [syn: bad, insecure, risky, speculative]

Usage examples of "high-risk".

It seems logical, then, that insurers would view a high-risk house with even greater concern.

Most of our wards are open - the typical stuff: acting-out adolescents, depressives past the high-risk period, anorexics, minor manics, Alzheimer's, cokeheads, and alkies on detox.

There was, of course, the exemption for law-enforcement officials who served in certain high-risk capacities, but she wouldn't be that.

All high-risk Cinderellas would have gone to the ball under Alec’s wand: the trick was in choosing only those who would keep an eye on the clock and deliver the crystal goods.

He bought the farm and she doesn't want to do high-risk flying while her kids are little.

And she had enough data points from years of rigorous testing to show that the flights were already high-risk, with an unacceptable destruction rate.

I try to explain to her how premiums cost a fortune if you have an accident or keep high-risk items like swimming-pool diving boards on your property, but I quit bothering after a few sentences.

Again, these were high-risk gambits, which, if they did not succeed in the short term, carried long-term costs.

He recalled from their conversations at the SOA reunions that Boos, for a short time after he retired from the Navy, had done some contract work for the CIA--highly specialized agent insertions and extractions into and out of high-risk areas, including Nicaragua.

A situation thus arose in which survey ships, generally operated by private corporations, undertook the high-risk job of locating potential colony sites which were then auctioned to prospective colony expeditions.