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Definition of Risk taker
1. Noun. Someone who risks loss or injury in the hope of gain or excitement.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Risk Taker
Literary usage of Risk taker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nature of Capital and Income by Irving Fisher (1906)
"12 , " The principle that a creditor of a concern is a risk-taker has two important
corollaries. The first is that, when bankruptcy occurs, ..."
2. Outlines of Economics by Richard Theodore Ely, Thomas Sewall Adams (1908)
"Yet, though the efficient entrepreneur deals with probabilities rather than
possibilities in his estimates, he is nevertheless a risk taker, a speculator, ..."
3. Outlines of Economics by Richard Theodore Ely, Thomas Sewall Adams (1910)
"Yet, though the efficient entrepreneur deals with probabilities rather than
possibilities in his estimates, he is nevertheless a risk taker, a speculator, ..."
4. The Economic Theory of Risk and Insurance by Allan Herbert Willett (1901)
"The statement that the assumption of risk yields a special reward is not intended
to imply that every risk-taker will be better off at the end of a year, ..."
5. Agricultural Economics by James Ernest Boyle (1921)
"For the essence of speculation is risk, and the grower is the first risk taker.
... and hence the owner for the time being is the risk taker. ..."
6. Agricultural Economics by James Ernest Boyle (1921)
"For the essence of speculation is risk, and the grower is the first risk taker.
Webster's definition of gambling is also given, since these two terms are ..."
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