Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of risk
plural riskings
- The act by which something is risked.
Those acts of others will, from the primary actor's perspective, be unjustified; thus, were they undertaken by the primary actor himself, they would be culpable riskings of harm.
2018, Larry Alexander, Kimberly Kessler Ferzan, Reflections on Crime and Culpability: Problems and Puzzles, page 18
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risking. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/risking
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