at-risk

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at-risk (comparative more at-risk, superlative most at-risk)

  1. vulnerable, especially to abuse or delinquency
    The actual at-risk population was limited to those directly exposed and could be quarantined or monitored.
    • 2014, Harold Marchant, Helen M. Smith, Jean P. Nursten, Adolescent Girls at Risk[1]:
      The main aim was to reduce one aspect of deviancy in a group of adolescent girls, namely at-risk behaviour, by using the method of detached work.

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