at-risk

adjective
🔊/ˌæt ˈrɪsk/
🔊/ˌæt ˈrɪsk/
[only before noun]
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  1. in danger of being attacked or harmed(尤指居家时)处于危险中的,可能遭受伤害的
    • Social services keep lists of at-risk children.社工组织保留有在家里可能遭受伤害的孩子名单。🔊🔊
    • The boys were put on the at-risk register.这些男孩被列入了高风险登记册。
    • guidelines to protext at-risk species禁止濒临灭绝物种的准则
    see also at riskTopics Dangerb2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryAt-risk is used with these nouns:
    • child
    • youth
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