Risk vs. Vulnerability

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.

Vulnerabilitynoun

(uncountable) Susceptibility to attack or injury; the state or condition of being weak or poorly defended.

Vulnerabilitynoun

(countable) a specific weakness in the protections or defences surrounding someone or something.

Vulnerabilitynoun

(computing) a weakness which allows an attacker to reduce a system's security

Vulnerabilitynoun

The quality or state of being vulnerable; vulnerableness.

Vulnerabilitynoun

the state of being vulnerable or exposed;

Vulnerabilitynoun

susceptibility to injury or attack

Vulnerabilitynoun

the quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally

Vulnerabilitynoun

liability of a partnership to higher penalties, either by convention or through having won one game towards a rubber.

Vulnerability

Vulnerability refers to the inability (of a system or a unit) to withstand the effects of a hostile environment. A window of vulnerability (WOV) is a time frame within which defensive measures are diminished, compromised or lacking.The understanding of social and environmental vulnerability, as a methodological approach, involves the analysis of the risks and assets of disadvantaged groups, such as the elderly.