RISK OF EXPOSURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does risk of exposure mean? 

• RISK OF EXPOSURE (noun)
  The noun RISK OF EXPOSURE has 1 sense:

1. the probability of being exposed to an infectious agent

  Familiarity information: RISK OF EXPOSURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RISK OF EXPOSURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The probability of being exposed to an infectious agent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

risk; risk of exposure

Hypernyms ("risk of exposure" is a kind of...):

chance; probability (a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible)