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risk-benefit
[ risk-ben-uh-fit ]
adjective
- 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.
From The Daily Beast
So we need to think about the risk-benefit ratio of every scan we do.
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But other parents make different risk/benefit calculations for their kids, which pan out OK for almost all of them.
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