at-risk

See also: at risk

English

Adjective

at-risk (comparative more at-risk, superlative most at-risk)

1. vulnerable, especially to abuse or delinquency

   The actual at-risk population was limited to those directly exposed and could be quarantined or monitored.

   • 2014, Harold Marchant, Helen M. Smith, Jean P. Nursten, Adolescent Girls at Risk‎^[1]:

     The main aim was to reduce one aspect of deviancy in a group of adolescent girls, namely at-risk behaviour, by using the method of detached work.

See also

• at risk

Anagrams

• Krista, kirats, kraits, sarkit, straik, takirs