Dictionary entry

Risky

Pronunciation: /ˈrɪski/

Pronunciation

/ˈrɪski/

Myanmar Meaning

အန္တရာယ်နှင့် ပတ်သက်နေသော။

Definition

risk /rÇsk/ n ၁။ [C, U] ~ (of sth/that…) အႏၲရာယ္။ စြန္႔စားမႈ။ အရဲစြန္႔ျခင္း။ Is there any risk of the bomb exploding? ❍ I'm prepared to take (ie accept) that risk. ❍ a calculated risk (ie one taken with full knowledge of the dangers) ❍ There's a risk of her developing pneumonia/that she'll develop pneumonia. ❍ an investment involving a high degree of risk ❍ an all-risks insurance policy. ၂။ [C] (အာမခံရာ၌) အရဲစြန္႔ရမႈ (နည္းေသာ၊ မ်ားေသာ) သူ။ ေဘးအႏၲရာယ္။ He's a good/poor insurance risk. ❍ Many people see it as a major health/security risk. v ၁။ စြန္႔စားသည္။ risk one's health/ life. ၂။ စြန္႔သည္။ risk failure/arrest ❍ risk getting caught in a storm. ၃။ အရဲစြန္႔သည္။ You should not risk marriage/marrying unless you are absolutely sure about it. ❏ at one's own risk [ IDM ] ကိုယ့္ဘာသာကိုယ္ တာဝန္ယူ၍။ Persons swimming beyond this point do so at their own risk. ❍ Cars are left at their owners' risk (eg on a notice). ❏ at risk [ IDM ] အႏၲရာယ္ရိွသည္။ ေဘးမကင္း။ [ဥ] မ်က္ခံုးလႈပ္သည္။ put one's life at risk ❍ be at risk from drought ❍ children at risk of contracting AIDS ❍ My job is at risk. ❏ at the risk of (doing sth) [ IDM ] (ေက်းဇူးကန္းရာ၊ မသိတတ္ရာ စသည္) က်ႏိုင္ေသာ္လည္း။ At the risk of sounding ungrateful, I must refuse your offer. ❏ at risk to oneself/sb/sth [ IDM ] အသက္ကို ပဓာန မထားဘဲ။ သက္စြန္႔ႀကိဳးပမ္း။ He saved the child at considerable risk to himself/to his own life. ❏ risky adj ( -ier , -iest ) ေဘးအႏၲရာယ္မ်ားေသာ။ အရဲစြန္႔ရ လြန္းေသာ။ a risky undertaking ❍ The investment was too risky. riskily /-Çli/ adv ❏ run the risk (of doing sth); run risks [ IDM ] စြန္႔စား သည္။ ေဘးေတြ႕ႏိုင္ေသာအလားအလာ ရိွသည္။ အရဲစြန္႔ရသည္။ We can't run the risk (of losing all that money). ❍ He runs more risk of being injured. ❍ She-runs the same risks as everyone else.

Examples

  1. Most major changes involve some risk.
  2. [risk of] : The risk of a major nuclear accident must be taken seriously.
  3. [the risk of doing something] : The risk of developing lung cancer from smoking is a serious one.
  4. [risk (that)] : There is no risk that the virus can be transferred from patient to doctor.
  5. [risk to] : The risks to consumers from these products need to be fully analysed.
  6. [reduce/increase the risk of something] : You can reduce the risk of heart disease by exercising regularly.
  7. [an element of risk] : All outdoor activities carry an element of risk.
  8. [worth the risk] : We might get away with it
  9. but it isn’t really worth the risk.
  10. [risk to] : The council says the waste is not a risk to the public.
  11. [health risk] : Some of these restaurants are a clear health risk to diners.
  12. [fire risk] : All these books and papers are a real fire risk.
  13. Large quantities of such material constitute a potential fire risk.
  14. [pose a risk (to someone)] : Such prisoners pose no real risk to the public.