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risk capital

n. (context business English) money explicitly available for investment into a high-risk business or security.

WordNet
risk capital

n. wealth available for investment in new or speculative enterprises [syn: venture capital]

Usage examples of "risk capital".

It took a great deal of capital, and in these days of high taxes, risk capital is always very careful.

This was just an easy way of easing the fears of people with risk capital.

Stripped of its stumbling oratorical flourishes, it argued that undersea development was now routine and therefore that there should be no tax dodges for phony risk capital investment.

In some few respects the debate seemed a filibuster, with a handful of representatives from the oil and mineral states engaging in a running argument against certain of the proposals on the pious grounds that the socalled reforms would only penalize those pioneers who risk capital in the search for new resources.

Nowadays, a man doesn't risk capital punishment, lightly, for the fun of springing on a total stranger, in the dark, with a razor-edge knife.

If Murph was a success, and risk capital built him a real lab, and if he could hire real lab assistants.