Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
risk-taking
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Risk-taking has long been a feature of the theatre company's productions, which have tackled many difficult issues.
▪ The culture in Silicon Valley values risk-taking and entrepreneurship.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Greed and the expectation of proper rewards are the only real justification for risk-taking.
▪ If you are methodical and conscientious, he should be exciting and risk-taking.
▪ Once again, our innovative thinking and intelligent risk-taking have been well justified and proved successful.
▪ One man's new tricks to manage cash flows and control risk are another's source of financial enslavement and greater risk-taking.
▪ Suits do not exactly connote creativity and risk-taking.
▪ They know that risk-taking is inherent in trying new ways and new ideas, but that this is what makes progress possible.
▪ Whose words deserve expensive risk-taking with black inks, gold leaf and vellum?
Usage examples of "risk-taking".
Saddam is a fundamentally aggressive and risk-taking decision maker, and the available evidence indicates that he subscribes to this dangerous interpretation of the role of nuclear deterrence in enabling conventional offensives.
Most of the desperate were those who backed risky ventures within the company, and were wondering if their risk-taking had made them into liabilities for the new majority owner.
Crouched behind her bunker of intelligence, overachievement and risk-taking was a furious, wounded child who went after dragons the rest of us feared.