high-risk
- s not financially safe or secure
- You've got a lot to think about when you're facing a high-risk operation, not the least being how to pick the right surgeon for the job.
- A wave of defaults on "subprime," or high-risk, home mortgages has not only rocked the Dow; it also threatens to ripple through the economy.
- With their layered identities and secretive, high-risk sexual practices, this group of "men who have sex with men" an epidemiological term commonly used by HIVAIDS workers .