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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 366 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RISK , See also:

hazard, See also:chance of danger or loss, especially the chance of loss to See also:property or goods which an See also:insurance See also:company undertakes to make See also:good to the insurer in return for the re-current See also:payment of a sum called the See also:premium (see INSURANCE). The word appears See also:late in See also:English, and in the 17th See also:century in the Fr. See also:form risque or It. risco or risgo, for risico, risigo; cf. Sp. riesgo. The Med. See also:Lat. riscus, rischium, and risicum are found, according to Du Cange (See also:Gloss., qq.v.), as See also:early as the 13th century. See also:Skeat (Etym.

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