averse
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
As experienced surgeons leave, he says, the more junior ones lose their mentors and become increasingly "risk averse", only choosing to use the healthiest donated organs offered to them.
From BBC
It is almost impossible to imagine this crisis persisting without it threatening the global economy, while also making investors more risk averse.
From MarketWatch
If they are risk averse, they put >10 years of their net annual expenses in their fixed-income safety ballast and the rest in equities.
We have two dogs, no kids and no cats — but we’re not averse to them.
From MarketWatch
When victory came his way, Lincoln was not averse to dispensing the spoils.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
