moral hazard
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.86 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "And what about moral hazard—or concern that protecting the system, however errant the behaviour of certain bankers, will encourage more folly in the future?"
- "I go to a lot of pro-market think tank events where one speaker or another blames the financial crisis and the current recession on moral hazard, as well as basically everything else that has gone wrong in the last sixty years. I'm afraid I don't see it."
- "Pyne said the uncapped scheme introduced a “moral hazard” because it encouraged employers and workers to agree to overgenerous redundancy entitlements, knowing taxpayers would foot the bill if the company failed."