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hazard English

Meaning hazard meaning

What does hazard mean?
Definitions in simple English

hazard Noun

— A hazard is something that is a danger and a risk to people. Please look out for the hazard ahead while you are driving along the highway.

hazard Verb

— When you hazard, you take a risk or a chance in doing something.

hazard

— noun a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune drinking alcohol is a health hazard — noun (= luck, chance) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another bad luck caused his downfall we ran into each other by pure chance — verb (= guess, pretend) put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong — noun an obstacle on a golf course — verb (= stake) put at risk I will stake my good reputation for this — verb (= gamble, risk) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome When you buy these stocks you are gambling

Synonyms hazard synonyms

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hazard English » English

risk danger peril venture jeopardy chance jeopardize endanger dare adventure stake endangerment accidence threat take a chance luck imperil take chances run a risk pretend harm guess gamble fortune compromise be audacious accident uncertainty treachery sweepstake stymy stymie stakes scupper roadblock risk safety presume plight play peradventure occasion obstruction obstacle mishap mischance menace lay jeopardise insecurity impediment

Topics hazard topics

What do people use hazard to talk about?
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to someone in trouble

Risk

Conjugation hazard conjugation

How do you conjugate hazard?

hazard · verb

Examples hazard examples

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Simple sentences

This is a hazard to your health.
It's too large a hazard to venture there.

Movie subtitles

Or it might just be, you know, a professional hazard.
Well, without having the prophetic powers of a seventh son I would hazard that she doesn't want to see you anymore.
Your job's a health hazard! What's that? What did you say?
When we have matched our rackets to these balls, we will in France, by God's grace, play a set shall strike his father's crown into the hazard!
Who will go hazard with me for 20 prisoners?
If I am to hazard my shield with you, she must accept me as champion.
I shall ever be in your quarrel to be your knight in right or in wrong. at the hazard of my body, from this day forward to my death.
I say! Is this a normal hazard of railway travel?
If I may hazard a comment, you were particularly fortunate.
A typhoon is an extreme hazard, but the ship was riding well.
Slave, I have set my life upon a cast. and I will stand the hazard of the die.
It's an occupational hazard.
I CAN ONLY HAZARD A GUESS.
I guess losing Sara is what you might call a hazard of our profession.
Admit it: Your job's a health hazard!
Oh, don't mention, sir. I'm a law-abiding citizen always willing to help in any hazard.
It's the hazard of the profession.
I'm taking responsibility for refusing to carry Mr. Honey on the flight, as I consider his presence an unnecessary hazard.
We won't hazard a guess as to which of the girls will be the eventual winner.
He could humble the Frenchman. That is, if he'd hazard his finery.
You'd hazard this for me?
Those babes are a real health hazard.
There's another hazard Sir.
Yes. It's Admiral Perry, Oliver Hazard.
Mr Martin hasn't reckoned with man's greatest hazard, a woman's tears.
Mine is a life of hazard, so please.
If it isn't faro, it's hazard or three-card monte or roulette.
When we have match'd our rackets to these balls, we will, in France, by God's grace, play a set shall strike his father's crown into the hazard.
Who will go to hazard with me for twenty prisoners?
You won't like 'em, those grass skirts are a fire hazard.
I told you before, they're a fire hazard.
Being killed is an occupational hazard.
It's a hazard to the vicinity.
And not only a den of vice, even hazard!
He has a den of hazard card games and a secret house of shame.
If it's no hazard to navigation, we needn't bother with it.
There is a safety hazard zone extending 25 metres from the ship.
It's an occupational hazard in our profession.

News and current affairs

The IMF's first effort at prescribing a cure may be flawed, but its diagnosis of a financial sector bloated by moral hazard is manifestly correct.
Although many factors contributed to the Savings and Loan crisis, it is generally agreed that moral hazard was a major one.
Following that crisis, deposit insurance in the US was reformed with the objective of mitigating the moral hazard problem.
In order to eradicate moral hazard, the system must have a resolution procedure to close banks when their capital falls below a minimum threshold.
Market fundamentalists blame this state of affairs on the moral hazard created by IMF bailouts.
But there can be no lender of last resort without a modicum of moral hazard.
The world's task is to find instruments that can minimize the possibility of moral hazard and yet keep the level of real risk within tolerable bounds.
Recent changes to the global financial architecture in the wake of the international financial crises aim exclusively at imposing greater market discipline. The goal is to eliminate the moral hazard introduced by the IMF.
Such, indeed, would create the ultimate moral hazard - a world of corporate crime without punishment.
Moreover, they warn of the moral hazard generated by relieving over-indebted countries from the pressure to put their public finances in order.
Northern European opposition to Eurobonds reflects moral-hazard concerns that monetary activism will discourage structural reforms.
The obvious problem with eurobonds is moral hazard: how to prevent fiscally irresponsible countries from free-riding on the credit-worthiness of other member states.
Worried about moral hazard?
Fourth, the spirit of the Maastricht rule on public debt would be reinforced, and moral hazard would be reduced.
Were the ECB to take aggressive action to bring them down, moral hazard would result: countries would face no punishment for delaying reforms.
In the US, the National Flood Insurance Program of 1968 made it mandatory for those financing construction or improvement of structures within Special Flood Hazard Areas to buy flood insurance.
The goal is to eliminate the moral hazard introduced by the IMF.
But central banks' new role as supreme arbiters of policy truth is fraught with hazard.
Finally, despite all the warnings about moral hazard, Western banks have been partly bailed out of their bad investments.
These funds may prove to be an effective short-term salve, but, over the long run, they will likely fuel moral-hazard problems, and potentially plant the seeds of deeper crises in the future.
The systematic bailouts of the latest crisis - however necessary to avoid a global meltdown - worsened this moral-hazard problem.

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