risk avoidance

collocation in English

meaningsofriskandavoidance

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risk
noun
uk
/rɪsk/us
/rɪsk/
the possibility of something ...
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avoidance
noun[U]
uk
/əˈvɔɪ.dəns/us
/əˈvɔɪ.dəns/
the act of avoiding something ...
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(Definition ofriskandavoidancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofrisk avoidance

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The healthcare sector has a strong tradition ofriskavoidance.
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Without similarriskavoidancefor other crops, farmers would naturally be loath to grow them.
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Riskavoidance, emotion interference, impulsive responses related to hyperarousal, and delay aversion are expected features of motivated behavior in anxious individuals.
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Conscientiousness is found to be related toriskavoidance, whereas openness to experience is linked to risk taking.
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A tendency towardsriskavoidancerather than risk management, by assisting all residents to some degree, undermines their independence, privacy and dignity.
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If all decisions affecting risks were 'pure' risk decisions, and other decisions did not affect risks, then it would be feasible to apply a uniform price toriskavoidance.
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Topics of interest include entitlement perception, heuristic based decision-making, anomalous behaviors and decision biases, belief formation, preference reversal, time preferences,riskavoidance/acceptance, endowment effects, fairness expectations, and framing effects.
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However, lottery money is not aboutriskavoidance.
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Identity theft can be partially mitigated by "not" identifying oneself unnecessarily (a form of information security control known asriskavoidance).
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He said there are risks in everything everyone does: the key is risk management, notriskavoidance.
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Riskavoidancedescribe any action where ways of conducting business are changed to avoid any risk occurrence.
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The study of computer security as an investment inriskavoidancehas become standard practice.
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They found that all three factors correlated with each other andriskavoidanceis potentially a mechanism linked to an anxiety pathology.
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