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"ref": "2022 November 30, Anthony Lambert, “Rail fares fit for the 21st century”, in RAIL, number 971, page 40",
"text": "The answer, says Mark Smith (The Man in Seat 61) is \"to reassure the risk-averse Treasury that prices within a new structure will not be difficult to adjust if calculations to achieve revenue neutrality are out by 2% or whatever. You're not stuck with the prices you implement on Day 1.\"",
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"ref": "2024 January 30, Phil McNulty, “Nottingham Forest 1-2 Arsenal: Gunners in title race after they close gap to leaders Liverpool”, in BBC Sport",
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"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."
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "unwilling to take risks",
"word": "averzní k riziku"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "unwilling to take risks",
"word": "rizikově averzní"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "unwilling to take risks",
"word": "riskiä karttava"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "unwilling to take risks",
"word": "risikoscheu"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "unwilling to take risks",
"word": "avverso al rischio"
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"roman": "ostorožnyj",
"sense": "unwilling to take risks",
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"masculine"
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"word": "осторожный"
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"roman": "izbegajuščij riska",
"sense": "unwilling to take risks",
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"masculine"
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"word": "избегающий риска"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "nepredraspoložennyj k risku",
"sense": "unwilling to take risks",
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"masculine"
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"word": "непредрасположенный к риску"
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"ref": "2022 November 30, Anthony Lambert, “Rail fares fit for the 21st century”, in RAIL, number 971, page 40",
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"translations": [
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "unwilling to take risks",
"word": "averzní k riziku"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "unwilling to take risks",
"word": "rizikově averzní"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "unwilling to take risks",
"word": "riskiä karttava"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "unwilling to take risks",
"word": "risikoscheu"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "unwilling to take risks",
"word": "avverso al rischio"
},
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "ostorožnyj",
"sense": "unwilling to take risks",
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"word": "осторожный"
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"roman": "izbegajuščij riska",
"sense": "unwilling to take risks",
"tags": [
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"word": "избегающий риска"
},
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"roman": "nepredraspoložennyj k risku",
"sense": "unwilling to take risks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "непредрасположенный к риску"
}
],
"word": "risk-averse"
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