risk of failure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofriskandfailure
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risk
noun
uk/rɪsk/us/rɪsk/
the possibility of something ...
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failure
noun
uk/ˈfeɪ.ljər/us/ˈfeɪ.ljɚ/
the fact of someone or something ...
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(Definition ofriskandfailurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofrisk of failure
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Theriskoffailureis too great.
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For their standard view involves a significantriskoffailure.
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Theriskoffailurewas reduced when a fieldworker's performance was moderate or high.
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Strong agreements produce about one-seventh theriskoffailureof a weak agreement.
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If rules or precautions are overlooked, theriskoffailureincreases.
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Making the joint completely mechanical increases its capacity and decreases its complexity of control andriskoffailure.
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It is this complexity that makes this joint easier to operate; however, it also increases theriskoffailure.
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The focus is on performance parameters including theriskoffailureas assessed through engineering risk analysis methods.
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It meant an increasedriskoffailure.
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There is ariskoffailure.
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I think that we run even theriskoffailure.
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The reason for the uplift is theriskoffailure.
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An initiative of this sort carries theriskoffailure.
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For continuous explanatory variables, relative risk measures the change in theriskoffailurefor a unit increase in the variable.
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Theriskoffailurewas less among the women who had at least one living child than the women who had no living children.
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Prospective heirs may not be interested if taking on additional firms would thin their supervision and raise theriskoffailureto their own firms.
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Imported strategies and technologies running counter to local user expectations have a highriskoffailure, despite their success in their original market.
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This equation is satisfied when theriskoffailureis sufficiently small and the cost advantage of the new technology is sufficiently large.
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Such commitment is commendable, but it places their organisations atriskoffailure, or at the least to periodic organisational crises.
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No experienced livestock holder will change his management purely on the recommendation of an outsider, especially if he is anticipating problems leading to a highriskoffailure.
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We are not to minimise the difficulties, nor indeed theriskoffailure.
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One of the reasons was that there was such a graveriskoffailure.
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Increase the rewards of success for the efficient; increase theriskoffailurefor the inefficient.
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But there must be noriskoffailureor of our not getting the best.
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