derisk de‧risk [diː'rɪsk] verb [intransitive, transitive]
MARKETING if a company derisks, it increases the range of goods or services it produces or increases the number of countries in which it does business in order to reduce the risk that something bad might happen:
• As part of our overall strategy, we wanted to derisk, that is take part of the business out of the US and enter Europe.
• Various initiatives have been taken to diversify and derisk the company's revenues.
— derisked adjective [only before a noun] :
• The derisked business model gives a high degree of stability to earnings.
— derisking noun [uncountable] :
• Derisking is accomplished by limiting exposure to any specific client, domain or type of project to less than 10 percent of annual revenues.
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derisk UK US (also de-risk) /ˌdiːˈrɪsk/ verb [I or T]
► to make something safer by reducing the possibility that something bad will happen and that money will be lost: »
Large corporations continue to focus on derisking their pension schemes.
»The company's move into film production is primarily meant to de-risk its business model.
»To survive inflation, the trick is to derisk.
Financial and business terms. 2012.