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risking

verbnouncommon in dialogue

The act by which something is risked.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of riskpresent participle and gerund of risk

noun

  1. 1

    The act by which something is risked.

    Those acts of others will, from the primary actor's perspective, be unjustified; thus, were they undertaken by the primary actor himself, they would be culpable riskings of harm.

Forms

plural
riskings
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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).