risk

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Unsafe and insecure
appealingly
at stakeidiom
be on the lineidiom
day
indefensible
insecure
insecurely
insecurity
instable
security breach
shaky
sketchy
someone's/something's days are numberedidiom
threat
threatened
unbalanced
unscreened
unsecured
unsound
unsupervised

jeopardy | American Dictionary

jeopardy
noun[ U ]
us/ˈdʒep·ər·di/
 in jeopardy
Something in jeopardy is in danger of being damaged or destroyed:
Bad investments have put the company’s future in jeopardy.

jeopardy | Business English

jeopardy
noun
uk /ˈdʒepədi/us
 in jeopardy
in danger of being harmed or destroyed:
The deal could be in jeopardy if it emerges the company is engaged in activities prohibited by the US government.
The 1.2 billion euro investment programme was being put in jeopardy by the strikes.

Examples of jeopardy

jeopardy
Constitutions, and the rule of law, therefore, greatly alleviate the jeopardy associated with unlimited discretion.
The pulmonary arterial supply was already in jeopardy, and the duct was virtually closed.
This article looks at the social status of elderly women in an empirical test of the double jeopardy hypothesis.
On the debating courtyard, monks deliberately place this ideology in jeopardy.
Gendered ageism : a double jeopardy for women in organizations.
They suggest that those who age in rural areas are subject to double jeopardy.
As children suffer most at an age when they are both growing and learning, the entire developmental process is placed in jeopardy.
Sometimes, because of the pregnancy, the relationship is in jeopardy.
They have also put their entitlements in the home country in jeopardy.
Future research should investigate interactions between genes and the environment, which may create double or multiple jeopardy for cerebral palsy.
Aging in minority populations : an examination of the double jeopardy thesis.
Within services for people who are elderly, those who have dementia often appear to have to suffer a double jeopardy of age and cognitive disability.
By doing this, they put the respectability of women and of other men in jeopardy.
In consideration of this, the salesperson will try hard to convince the prospect, putting the prospect's negative face in the greatest jeopardy.
At the same time most of these couples do not wish to put their future fertility in any jeopardy.
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