unnecessary risk

collocation in English

meaningsofunnecessaryandrisk

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unnecessary
adjective
uk
/ʌnˈnes.ə.ser.i/us
/ʌnˈnes.ə.ser.i/
not needed or wanted, or more than is needed ...
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risk
noun
uk
/rɪsk/us
/rɪsk/
the possibility of something ...
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(Definition ofunnecessaryandriskfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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That is an unacceptable andunnecessaryrisk.
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Those diseases put everyone atunnecessaryrisk.
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I did not want to run anunnecessaryrisk.
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That would beunnecessaryriskto human life.
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I hope that she will not run thatunnecessaryrisk.
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Every effort is made to avoidunnecessaryriskor annoyance.
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Do not put the public atunnecessaryrisk.
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To do otherwise is to court extraunnecessaryrisk.
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The obvious question is why employers (and sometimes the employees themselves) invest in employer stock when it leads tounnecessaryrisk.
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A professional soccer player may risk an operation, which for a less athletic individual would represent anunnecessaryriskthat might jeopardize her ability to even walk.
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Every precaution is taken to ensure that troops on duty are not exposed tounnecessaryrisk.
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Would anybody in his senses—leaving out the humane aspects—put that man tounnecessaryrisk?
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But the country must not run anyunnecessaryriskeven if these aliens do suffer hardships.
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None of us wants to scaremonger, but this is anunnecessaryrisk.
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We must not put people atunnecessaryriskthrough our actions.
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We must not put our people or our animals atunnecessaryrisk.
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Have not much frustration, anxiety, and certainlyunnecessaryrisk, been imposed on motorists and public alike?
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He stresses the fact that gambling involves us inunnecessaryrisktaking.
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The haemophiliac is exposed tounnecessaryriskbecause he cannot carry a passenger who.
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The motion should read, "wherever possible, without placing our service men's lives atunnecessaryrisk".
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They did not suppress the news; but they were taking a deliberate andunnecessaryrisk.
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We should not put our men and women atunnecessaryrisk.
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We owe them a duty not to expose them tounnecessaryrisk.
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Employers feel that taking him on involves an additionalunnecessaryrisk.
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Will he ensure that in such circumstances public funds are not put atunnecessaryriskwhen private finance is available?
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