Definition of risk

• n. - Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction.
• n. - Hazard of loss; liabillity to loss in property.
• n. - To expose to risk, hazard, or peril; to venture; as, to risk goods on board of a ship; to risk one's person in battle; to risk one's fame by a publication.
• n. - To incur the risk or danger of; as, to risk a battle.