Hazard - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Adventure, Ante, Back, Bet, Bingo, Block, Blockade, Book, Bottleneck, Brave, Call, Casualty, Catch, Chance

Hazard is a term used in evaluating safety: A hazard is a potential unwanted event. See Risk and Worker safety and health

Hazard can also mean:

In computer architecture, a hazard is a problem inherent in pipelined processors.
Hazard is a game of chance
A moral hazard is the name given to the risk that one party to a contract can change their behaviour to the detriment of the other party once the contract has been concluded.
Hazard, Kentucky in the United States of America.
Hazard, Nebraska the setting to a song by Richard Marx.

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