Usually means: Preference for safety over reward.
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General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. risk aversion: Collins English Dictionary
  2. Risk-Aversion, risk-aversion: Wordnik
  3. risk aversion: Wiktionary
  4. risk aversion: Dictionary.com
  5. Risk aversion (psychology), Risk aversion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. risk aversion: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Risk aversion: Moneyterms
  2. Risk aversion: Legal dictionary
  3. Risk-aversion, risk aversion: Financial dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Risk aversion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Risk aversion: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (risk aversion)

noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see risk, aversion.
noun:  Tendency of a decision-maker to prefer a certain payoff to one of greater expected value but more uncertainty.

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