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potential victim

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potential
adjective[before noun]
uk /pəˈten.ʃəl/ us /poʊˈten.ʃəl/
possible when the necessary ...
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victim
noun[C]
uk /ˈvɪk.tɪm/ us /ˈvɪk.təm/
someone or something that has been hurt, damaged, or killed or has suffered, either because of the actions of someone or something else, or because of illness ...
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Examples of potential victim


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Neither involves harm to a victim, and often there is no determinate potentialvictim.
Finally, fighting disease is summed up as a joint endeavor of doctors, the state, and the organism, the potentialvictim.
First, we make him a potentialvictim of blackmail.
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We should be most concerned to save the potentialvictim because, in most cases, the potentialvictim is an innocent person.
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Everyone is a potentialvictim if such a policy is pursued.
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Let us examine the position of the potentialvictim for a moment.
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There is no need to specify a particular person as being the victim or potentialvictim.
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The peaceable citizen, the potentialvictim, is more worthy of any consideration than the potential criminal.
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Essentially we believe the victim/potentialvictim test to be right.
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Who stands between the kind of crimes that are committed, the potentialvictim and the offender?
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The service is a potentialvictim of capping, along with other important services in the city.
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They know also that anyone from the same group is a potentialvictim.
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Resistance to infection requires awareness and effort from the potentialvictim.
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It deals with the threat from people known to the potentialvictim as well as from strangers.
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Ultimately, the hospital patient, the school pupil, the rail passenger and the potentialvictim of crime must come first.
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Can the situation be altered to his disadvantage, and therefore to the greater protection of the potentialvictim?
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A big, artistically disposed tear runs down the child's pale face, which contrasts with the darkness of the coat, accentuating the innocent anxiety of this potentialvictim of remilitarisation.
He does so because he believes that it will be easier to extract from his potentialvictim the money that he is seeking.
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That is rather clever, as it does not put the onus wholly on to the potentialvictim, who might otherwise feel oppressed.
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This treatment, coupled with an incubation period which may be many months, leaves the potential victim subject to a long period of anguish and discomfort.
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Like any such salesman, he is not giving the potentialvictim the opportunity to inspect the vehicle or take it for a test run.
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He may pose as a friend at a time when the potentialvictim has drunk too much and is offered a substance.
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My status in this matter is no greater than that of any man, woman, or child in this country— the status of a potentialvictim.
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In such cases, the key is to keep the potentialvictim talking, to prevent his mind from turning to any untoward action.
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