Definition of "at-risk" []

• Being endangered, as from exposure to disease or from a lack of parental or familial guidance and proper health care: efforts to make the vaccine available to at-risk groups of children. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "It would require that a more significant portion of executive pay be dependent on attaining performance indicators - what is often called "at-risk pay.""
• "On the bright side, the current ratio of at-risk seats is 53 to 6."
• "Cook just upgraded to fifty-eight the number of at-risk D seats in the House (we have six)."