regulatory risk

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noun

a risk to which private companies are subject, arising from the possibility of legislation or regulations that will affect business being adopted by a government

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Words nearby regulatory risk

regulator, regulator gene, regulator pin, regulatory, regulatory gene, regulatory risk, regulatory sequence, reguline, regulo, regulus, regurgitant murmur

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How to use regulatory risk in a sentence

Obsessive exercising and inadequate nutrition can, over time, put people at high risk for overuse injuries like stress fractures.
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It has nothing to do with the regulatory job he is nominated for.
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Together, the teams are working 24 hours a day for a product that promises much higher risk than it does profit.
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He could order the Justice Department to begin the necessary regulatory work.
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Politicians who openly associated with Duke, or his hard-core associates, did so at their own risk.
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But a lawyer who needed the wherewithal finally condescended to risk the task, and into it he plunged.
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If the Duke de Ripperda be found, he must be taken alive, at the risk of those who seek him.
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Assuredly, this was an occasion when the sacrifice of a few minutes might avoid the grave risk of a breakdown after daybreak.
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The hospitals in the capital were crowded with wounded soldiers, brought in at great risk from the rural districts.
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We find these figures in “Chance,”‌ which by Concurrence describes the risk they ran.
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