grave risk

collocation in English

meaningsofgraveandrisk

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grave
adjective
uk
/ɡreɪv/
us
/ɡreɪv/
seriously ...
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risk
noun
uk
/rɪsk/
us
/rɪsk/
the possibility of something ...
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(Definition ofgraveandriskfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofgrave risk

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We do not think, however, that this is agraverisk.
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There is agraverisk.
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But there is thisgraverisk.
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Prison officers are running agraverisk.
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They are taking agraverisk.
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All this is atgraverisk.
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They are taking a verygraverisk.
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Alterations involvegraveriskof political unpopularity.
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I think he runs agraveriskof that.
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I always thought there was agraveriskof that.
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I say that this is a verygraveriskindeed.
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Now it will be put atgraverisk.
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This is an undoubted and verygraverisk.
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Without that we are running verygraveriskindeed.
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I believe that agraverisklies there.
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That, to my mind, is agraverisk.
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That is taking agraveriskwith public order.
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This is now agraverisk, starting with paediatric surgery.
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We allow this to continue atgraverisk.
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It is an important matter because the lives of civilians and troops are atgraverisk.
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This is anothergraveriskwhich we need not as a country have run.
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These are creatures which are apparently under verygraveriskindeed.
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One of the reasons was that there was such agraveriskof failure.
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Do we really think that there is agraveriskof litigation?
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All that has put and is putting the railway equipment manufacturing industry atgraverisk.
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