derisk

verb

Etymology

From de- + risk.

  1. derived from *lewk-✻
  2. derived from ܪܙܩܐ — “daily ration”
  3. derived from رِزْق — “sustenance, that which God allots”
  4. derived from ῥιζικό — “sustenance obtained by a soldier through his own initiative, fortune”
  5. derived from ῥιζικόν
  6. derived from resecō
  7. derived from *resecum✻
  8. derived from risco — “risk”
  9. borrowed from risque
  10. prefixed as derisk — “de + risk”

Definitions

  1. To remove the risk from

    To remove the risk from; to make safe.

    • Thus, rather than paying for the perceptions (no doubt valid) of higher risk, the challenge is to derisk the situation.

The neighborhood

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