risk-taker

noun

: a person who is willing to do things that involve danger or risk in order to achieve a goal

I'm not much of a risk-taker.

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Tim Connelly has built a reputation for being a risk-taker since taking over as the Minnesota Timberwolves president of basketball operations three years ago. —

Jon Krawczynski, The Athletic, 6 Feb. 2025 Harry Styles Fashion icon and One Direction alum Harry Styles was born February 1, 1994, and the risk-taker has never been afraid to be seen as eccentric with his bold looks. —

Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025 Campbell is certainly a risk-taker, which bit him in last year's NFC title game against the San Francisco 49ers. —

Ryan Morik, Fox News, 22 Dec. 2024 The director is a legendary risk-taker, and this one is certainly a risk: an allegorical sci-fi fantasy epic about a city of the future, modeled after some mixture of Rome, New York, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, and God knows what else. —

Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for risk-taker