risk capital—(also: venture capital) money for speculative business investment:
- Kula Fund was established to provide long-term risk capital to private sector projects in the Pacific.
risk money—
1. allowance to a cashier to compensate for ordinary errors:
- To meet deficiencies, some banks allow to each cashier a certain sum, which is called risk-money.
2. = risk capital:
- A business man ought to be able to get his “risk money” back before he has to pay too much in the way of taxation.