risky

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Amazon has been playing it risky since the get-go.

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Quick take

involving risk or danger; "skydiving is a hazardous sport"; "extremely risky going out in the tide and fog"; "a wild financial scheme"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of risky gathered in one view.

adjective

involving risk or danger; "skydiving is a hazardous sport"; "extremely risky going out in the tide and fog"; "a wild financial scheme"

adjective

not financially safe or secure; "a bad investment"; "high risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky"; "speculative business enterprises"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for risky.

adjective

involving risk or danger; "skydiving is a hazardous sport"; "extremely risky going out in the tide and fog"; "a wild financial scheme"

adjective

not financially safe or secure; "a bad investment"; "high risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky"; "speculative business enterprises"

Example sentences

Amazon has been playing it risky since the get-go.

You might wonder "Well are we more risky than the same aggregate volume spread over N accounts?

But if you dig a little, you will see the risk that some of these people are taking is not as risky as they may seem.

Any kind of restriction like this is incredibly risky.

Startups are risky, and not always due to market forces or the brilliance of the business idea.

If the government had not provided that subsidy, I would not have taken a loan to the tune of $1000/year because that would have been too risky.

As we are seeing now, this means that I will protect them at the expense of making some non-customers and "risky" customers upset.

A public statement like that probably means that both Lockheed and Boeing have been beating up on SpaceX as "risky" behind closed doors for a while.

It's a clean order of magnitude more volatile than the stock market, which is considered a "volatile", "risky" class of asset.

It's also not at all risky to attempt to steal Bitcoin; robbing an armored car involves a significant amount of risk.

The first flight would be risky; if I felt comfortable that the company's mission will continue, that my kids have grown up, then I'd be on the first mission.

Dynamic pins, or "tacks", make dragnet surveillance of all sites asymptotically as risky as spoofing Google Mail.

Basing a business around an app is both risky and potentially very profitable.

The employee at a big company that was internally responsible for the 'digital signage' project, would base every decision on which choice would be less risky for his carreer in case the project fails.

Given all of the above, and given that IPOs remain at far below the old bubble levels in frequency, it can be risky to lay out any excessive cash to exercise at any time before a liquidity event.