Definition of "run the risk"

run the risk

verb
third-person singular simple present runs the risk, present participle running the risk, simple past ran the risk, past participle run the risk
1. (often followed by of) to risk something important.
  Quotations
  When a reversionary society buys contingent reversions, it is entitled to say——“We cannot afford to run the risk of losing our money by the death of the reversioner, and therefore we must effect an insurance."
  1873, Journal of the Institute of Actuaries, Volume 17, page 413
  “Will you,” said he, “run the risk of losing your souls? Will you run the risk of missing heaven? Will you run the risk of perishing in your sins, and dying without hope?”
  1892, Gerard B. F. Hallock, The Sailor's Magazine, and Naval Journal, Volume 64, page 334
  Why do you run the risk, knowing that it is all in vain?”
  2012, Margarita Borkaev, Far Away Run the Roads, Xlibris Corporation, page 157