flight risk

[flahyt risk]

noun

1. the possibility that a person awaiting a criminal hearing or trial will flee instead of staying to attend their trial.

2. a person awaiting a criminal hearing or trial who is considered likely to flee instead of staying to attend their trial.

Example Sentences

His parents live in France, and prosecutors claim Rinderknecht is a flight risk due to his family living overseas.

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Before sentencing, Judge Barry G Lawrence described Rossi as a "serial abuser of women" and said he was the "very definition of a flight risk".

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He said since there was no official record of Mr. Martins’s exiting Brazil, as required by law, it proved he was a flight risk.

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They estimated that only about $800 billion of that is susceptible to “flight risk” and it’s “primarily retail cash,” or money-market assets tied to individual investors.

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Based on their estimate, the roughly $800 billion at “flight risk” links back to the cash that was moving into money-market funds when the Fed was raising rates to battle high inflation, “minus some of the inflows that occurred in 2023 following the regional-banking crisis as investors sought diversification away from deposit.”

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