risk-taking

noun

: the act or fact of doing something that involves danger or risk in order to achieve a goal

Starting a business always involves some risk-taking.

Examples of risk-taking in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In the ’90s, Garber developed a reputation for intellectual risk-taking with a series of psychoanalytically inflected books on topics including cross-dressing, real estate, and Americans’ reliance on dogs for unconditional love. —Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026

The situation is also an opportunity for NASA to resume the kind of risk-taking that has been lacking to shake the agency out of a post-space-shuttle lethargy and to reignite passions for reaching a stretch goal under deadline pressure. —Thomas Black, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2026

The situation is also an opportunity for NASA to resume the kind of risk-taking that has been lacking to shake the agency out of a post-space-shuttle lethargy and to reignite passions for reaching a stretch goal under deadline pressure. —Thomas Black, Twin Cities, 23 Apr. 2026

There’s still room for inventiveness, for risk-taking. —Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 31 Mar. 2026

Rhymes for risk-taking

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