risky enterprise

collocation in English

meaningsofriskyandenterprise

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risky
adjective
uk
/ˈrɪs.ki/
us
/ˈrɪs.ki/
involving the possibility of something ...
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enterprise
noun
uk
/ˈen.tə.praɪz/
us
/ˈen.t̬ɚ.praɪz/
an organization, especially a business, or a difficult and important plan, especially one that will ...
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(Definition ofriskyandenterprisefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Still, the complexity of the motivational foundation for discussion suggests that it is ariskyenterprise that carries not only benefits but also potential costs.
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Obviously, dealing with doctrinally radical books in the 1530s was ariskyenterprise.
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Reflexivity is now ariskyenterprisewhich may leave researchers exposed and vulnerable.
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Nonetheless, some practitioners, as we noted earlier, were willing to pursue theriskyenterpriseof marketing their scientific expertise by serving as private tutors or advisors to government officials.
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Fishery proved to be the leastriskyenterprise, for which area allocation was the same at the lowest as well as the highest risk level.
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That is just the kind of thing which frightens civil servants off a tooriskyenterprise.
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That is far less than using one's money in a much lessriskyenterprise.
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The reluctance of employees to sink their redundancy money in ariskyenterpriseand to accept managerial responsibility is usually the stumbling point.
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As the report rightly stresses, heart surgery at any age is ariskyenterprise.
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Surely, if there is one defence for private enterprise banking it is that this institution will advance money to encourage a new and somewhatriskyenterpriseto establish itself.
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More secure plans may involve adopting less risky enterprises, diversifying to a greater number of enterprises to spread risk, and using established technologies rather than venturing into new ones.
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After all, our great economic institutions often started as small risky enterprises.
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