risk-averse

English

Adjective

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

1. Unwilling to take risks; especially (economics) reluctant to accept a bargain with an uncertain payoff rather than another bargain with a more certain, but possibly lower, expected payoff.

Translations

unwilling to take risks

• Czech: averzní k riziku
• German: risikoscheu
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• Russian: осторожный (ru) m (ostorožnyj), избегающий риска m (izbegajuščij riska), непредрасположенный к риску m (nepredraspoložennyj k risku)