Risk vs. Exposure

Risknoun

(countable) A possible adverse event or outcome

Risknoun

The probability of a negative outcome to a decision or event.

Risknoun

The magnitude of possible loss consequent to a decision or event.

Risknoun

The potential (conventionally negative) effect of an event, determined by combining the likelihood of the event occurring with the effect should it occur.

Risknoun

An entity insured by an insurer or the specific uncertain events that the insurer underwrites.

Riskverb

(transitive) To incur risk of (something).

Riskverb

(transitive) To incur risk of harming or jeopardizing.

Riskverb

(transitive) To incur risk as a result of (doing something).

Risknoun

Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction.

Risknoun

Hazard of loss; liabillity to loss in property.

Riskverb

To expose to risk, hazard, or peril; to venture; as, to risk goods on board of a ship; to risk one's person in battle; to risk one's fame by a publication.

Riskverb

To incur the risk or danger of; as, to risk a battle.

Risknoun

a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune;

Risknoun

a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury;

Risknoun

the probability of becoming infected given that exposure to an infectious agent has occurred

Risknoun

the probability of being exposed to an infectious agent

Riskverb

expose to a chance of loss or damage;

Riskverb

take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome;

Risk

In simple terms, risk is the possibility of something bad happening. Risk involves uncertainty about the effects/implications of an activity with respect to something that humans value (such as health, well-being, wealth, property or the environment), often focusing on negative, undesirable consequences.

Exposurenoun

(uncountable) The condition of being exposed, uncovered, or unprotected.

Exposurenoun

(uncountable) Lack of protection from weather or the elements.

Exposurenoun

The act of exposing something, such as a scandal.

Exposurenoun

That part which is facing or exposed to something, e.g. the sun, weather, sky, or a view.

Exposurenoun

(photography) An instance of taking a photograph.

Exposurenoun

(photography) The piece of film exposed to light.

Exposurenoun

(photography) Details of the time and f-number used.

Exposurenoun

(gardening) The amount of sun, wind etc. experienced by a particular site.

Exposurenoun

The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or contempt.

Exposurenoun

The state of being exposed or laid open or bare; openness to danger; accessibility to anything that may affect, especially detrimentally; as, exposure to observation, to cold, to inconvenience.

Exposurenoun

Position as to points of compass, or to influences of climate, etc.

Exposurenoun

The exposing of a sensitized plate to the action of light.

Exposurenoun

vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain;

Exposurenoun

the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience;

Exposurenoun

the disclosure of something secret;

Exposurenoun

aspect re light or wind;

Exposurenoun

the state of being vulnerable or exposed;

Exposurenoun

the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate;

Exposurenoun

a picture of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material

Exposurenoun

the act of exposing film to light

Exposurenoun

presentation to view in an open or public manner;

Exposurenoun

abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving as infant out in the open)