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risk-benefit

[ risk-ben-uh-fit ]

adjective

  1. involving studies, testing, etc., to establish whether the benefits, as of a course of medical treatment, outweigh the risks involved:

    to arrive at a risk-benefit ratio.



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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of risk-benefit1

First recorded in 1970–75
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Example Sentences

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Even so, they suggested that their findings “may inform future public health risk-benefit assessments of fluoride.”

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“But if you are feeling better, and you know you don’t have a fever, and you’re not using Tylenol or Advil to mask your fever, it’s what I would call a risk-benefit situation.”

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Its outsize role in our culture is only one reason it is challenging to fit alcohol into the usual kinds of risk-benefit analyses that apply to so many routine choices.

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If some of Russia’s earlier invaders had been “sent home in body bags,” as Veep Biden and others said was necessary at the time, would Putin have later altered his risk-benefit calculus?

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The data collected and analyzed in the reviews suggest a risk-benefit ratio that is characterized as unknown, unfavorable, or insufficient on a scientific basis.

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