1. risk
At this rate, the risk is high that our country's competitive position will drop even further.
I know that interest rates are fixed in accordance to the borrower's business risk.
at risk
It's a job worth doing, but if I think about the working hours and the risk ... I could be onto a real losing proposition here.
Risk all and gain all.
Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan, to risk their lives for us.
Calculating the risk which is involved in the event of failure, he demanded a show-down with the other party.
His style (if you were to call it that) was excessively (though I run the risk of hypocrisy) parenthetical (pardon the pun).
Risk money refers to funds placed in investments that seek high-return, although high-risk, investments.
However, it seems that just because it's a 'low risk day' doesn't mean that you won't get pregnant from intravaginal ejaculation.
I will risk drinking tea in Mrs Ewelina's house. Maybe I'll survive.
Some people's fear of flying is far out of proportion to the actual risk it involves.
Holding the Olympics where there's severe atmospheric pollution gives rise to a great risk for athletes.
Causing competitors to fail, obtaining confidential information, something that big business just can't do without - high risk but at the same time high return work.
Do you think she would risk her life... her son's life... if she wasn't certain her husband was murdered?
Englisch Wort "risco"(risk) tritt in Sätzen auf:
1000 most common Portuguese words - part 32. venture
a new/profitable venture
My uncle says he's about to embark on a new business venture.
He found a new business partner for a very lucrative venture in Nigeria.
This venture was deemed to fail.
Spying on gangsters was a dangerous venture.
This venture will change your life
I wish my venture would work out.
But for his steady support, my venture would have resulted in a failure.
If I don't come back, the venture will probably be unsuccessful.
The directors were reluctant to undertake so risky a venture.
She advised us to look abroad for more lucrative business ventures.
We ventured out into the woods. The group's lead singer is now venturing on a solo career. /ˈvɛntʃər/
a new business or activity. Wait for clarity and totality before starting a new business venture
This journey is a big venture. You need to be well prepared.
Our company is a small but elect venture business that assists in entry and totalling of questionnaires.
3. line
They fed me a line about Monday being a holiday, so I took the day off, and it wasn't.
If you are a parent, don't allow yourself to set your heart on any particular line of work for your children.
Each episode of that TV drama ends with somebody delivering a profound line.
From the airport, the Keisei Line Sky-Liner will take you to Ueno Station in 75 minutes.
line (n)
She's a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election except for one thing: Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old.
It then became necessary to settle the best route for the line to follow; and that was determined, in the first place, by the shape of the land it had to cross.
If my plane doesn't crash, and if I do not get kidnapped by organ thieves, I will drop you a line at the beginning of the week.
Pretty soon along came to the village some strangely dressed people who called themselves surveyors; and they surveyed a line in front of my grandmother's little house.
What I looked up to in Shota was not his 'strength'. It was his heroic courage to put his life on the line to carry out his convictions.
But so that we may not cause offense, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.
The campers made their own bird feeders with pinecones, peanut butter, and seeds. They hung them from trees with fishing line.
Friendly Reminder: Please keep in mind the closing time of the line you need to switch to, so as to avoid delays in your trip.
Imogen of the Internet can connect to dial-up BBSes by whistling into a funnel attached to a phone line.
The management tended to be too concerned about short-term improvement of the bottom line to have any long-term design for the future.