risky business

collocation in English

meaningsofriskyandbusiness

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risky
adjective
uk
/ˈrɪs.ki/us
/ˈrɪs.ki/
involving the possibility of something ...
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business
noun
uk
/ˈbɪz.nɪs/us
/ˈbɪz.nɪs/
the activity of buying and selling goods ...
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(Definition ofriskyandbusinessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Forecasting is ariskybusiness, and the prediction of long-term health care events is fraught with difficulties (2;6;9).
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Tuning was thus ariskybusinessconducted shortly before performance and sometimes unreliable during it.
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We also acknowledge that it isriskybusinessto argue from the performance of an atypically developing group.
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Changes are so volatile in the media world that writing on the subject is ariskybusiness.
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Of course, staging a coup is ariskybusinessand only rational if there is a good chance of success, so that rent seeking can be undertaken.
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Second, importing a theory from one discipline into another is ariskybusiness, particularly as the borrowing in this case is from a physical science to a social science.
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Computer-based assessment is ariskybusiness.
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Studying living authors is ariskybusiness.
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In other words, in this veryriskybusinessthey can keep almost half as much again of their winnings as our companies.
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It was that for anybody, private or public, to engage in oil exploration in one narrow field is a highly dangerous andriskybusinesscommercially.
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In other words, theriskybusinesswill be re-insured but when the business is less risky there will be no reinsurance.
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Every time we deal with the services directive it is always ariskybusiness!
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Small claims have become a veryriskybusiness.
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This ariskybusinessand a great deal of money may be lost if the industry does not succeed.
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By its very nature, that is ariskybusinessand it leads to a significant element of loss.
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Further, it is desirable to encourage the use of profits, which successful companies are earning, in theriskybusinessof looking for a new deposit.
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Oil companies face many uncertainties—they are in ariskybusiness.
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It is a veryriskybusiness, but it is the making of that boy and the schools risk it and do not suffer.
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It is quite true, as every business man knows, that annuity is ariskybusiness.
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