run the risk

present singular third person runs the risk · participle present running the risk · past ran the risk

1. oftento risk something important.

   Why do you run the risk, knowing that it is all in vain?”

   2012, Margarita Borkaev, Far Away Run the Roads, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 157

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   When a reversionary society buys contingent reversions, it is entitled to say——“We cannot afford to run the risk of losing our money by the death of the reversioner, and therefore we must effect an insurance."

   1873, Journal of the Institute of Actuaries, Volume 17, page 413

   “Will you,” said he, “run the risk of losing your souls? Will you run the risk of missing heaven? Will you run the risk of perishing in your sins, and dying without hope?”

   1892, Gerard B. F. Hallock, The Sailor's Magazine, and Naval Journal, Volume 64, page 334

   Synonyms: be at risk of