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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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Word History and Origins

Origin of risk-benefit1

First recorded in 1970–75

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Example Sentences

The risk-benefit math becomes less favorable for the older patient.

So we need to think about the risk-benefit ratio of every scan we do.

But other parents make different risk/benefit calculations for their kids, which pan out OK for almost all of them.

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