What's the meaning of risk ?

risk is any thing or behavior if done will lose for company

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anything where the probability of loss is high

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A risk is anything that endangers the achievement of an objective

risk have many terms evry thing has its own risk for example finance has its different risks and investment and accounting als have different from each other the best example of risk in term of Investment the difference between expected return and actual return is called risk

The IIA defines risk as follows: The possibility of an event occurring that will have an impact on the achievement of objectives.
ISO 31000 defines risk as : Risk is “effect of uncertainty on objectives”

Risk is a what could go wrong event which have a negative impact on the company's strategic, financial and operational objectives.

Risk is an event or set of events to which probability can be assigned.
Risk exists when the decision maker is in a position to assign probabilities to various out comes and this happens when he is in possession of historical data on the basis of which he can assign probabilities.
For details see my presentation on Risk and uncertainty-http://www.slideshare.net/syedmuhammadijaz/risk-and-uncertaintylecture2

this is a nice question we can say risk is any thing affect negative on company

potential events that effect the may effect the entity ,its initiation from within or from outside of entity