Definitions of risk-averse - OneLook

▸ adjective:  Unwilling to take risks; especially (economics) reluctant to accept a bargain with an uncertain payoff rather than another bargain with a more certain, but possibly lower, expected payoff.reluctant, risk-taking, unhazarding, risky, tight-assed, Chancy, tight-fisted, noncommittal, penny-pinching, backward, more...

risk adverse,  doesn't take risks

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