peril

Portuguese translation: risco / perigo

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English term or phrase:peril
Portuguese translation:risco / perigo
Entered by: Teresa Cristina Felix de Sousa

13:09 Jul 31, 2007
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Other / Empreendedorismo
English term or phrase: peril
Ego and the mistaken belief in the benefits of a firm's diversifying its risk lead some entrepreneurs to pursue unrelated diversification to their own peril.
Teresa Cristina Felix de Sousa
Brazil
Local time: 13:17
risco / perigo
Explanation:
risco / perigo

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Note added at 3 mins (2007-07-31 13:12:31 GMT)
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peril
noun [C or U] FORMAL
1 great danger, or something that is very dangerous:
I never felt that my life was in peril.
The journey through the mountains was fraught with peril (= full of dangers).
Teenagers must be warned about the perils of unsafe sex.

2 do sth at your peril to do something that might be very dangerous for you:
We underestimate the destructiveness of war at our peril.
(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Cristina Santos
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:17
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3risco / perigo
Cristina Santos
4 +1risco
Clarice Guelfi (X)


  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
risco


Explanation:
Para mim é o termo que melhor se adapta ao texto: "A seu próprio risco".

Clarice Guelfi (X)
Brazil
Local time: 13:17
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Paul Dixon: Yes, indeed.
11 mins
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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
risco / perigo


Explanation:
risco / perigo

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Note added at 3 mins (2007-07-31 13:12:31 GMT)
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peril
noun [C or U] FORMAL
1 great danger, or something that is very dangerous:
I never felt that my life was in peril.
The journey through the mountains was fraught with peril (= full of dangers).
Teenagers must be warned about the perils of unsafe sex.

2 do sth at your peril to do something that might be very dangerous for you:
We underestimate the destructiveness of war at our peril.
(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)

Cristina Santos
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:17
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 48
Grading comment
Gratíssima
T.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Nathalie Tomaz: risco, no âmbito da lei
0 min
  -> Obrigada

agree  Christiane Jost
2 mins
  -> Obrigada

agree  Humberto Ribas
1 hr
  -> Obrigada
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