calculating

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It's not "risk" that's scarce, it's "calculated risk", where the person doing the calculating is the one who will win big if the risk pays off, and will lose if it doesn't.

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  1. adjective Capable of performing calculations: a calculating machine.
  2. adjective Shrewd; crafty: the calculating defense of an experienced attorney.
  3. adjective Coldly scheming or conniving.

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  • Named one of People magazine's "100 Most Beautiful People," Elba may be best known as the calculating de facto leader of a Baltimore drug empire in the critically acclaimed original series "The Wire," but the British import is quickly making his mark as an actor to watch in Hollywood. —  NBC Universal Media Village: Home
  • Our initial We use the Retirement Plans (RP) 2000 Mortality Table health care cost trend rate is adjusted as necessary to remain projected forward to our plans 'measurement dates for consistent with this review, recent experiences, and short-term calculating the year-end defined benefit pension, other expectations. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • But there's also room on the TV landscape for the kind of calculating, intelligent melodrama that "Damages" supplies.
  • Weeks of planning, calculating, and practicing paid off with a picture perfect motorcycle stunt by Australian Robbie Maddison. —  Las Vegas News Blog
  • Disingenuous means insincere or calculating, and that's how Judge Lee R. West labelled a claim by the RIAA, said p2pnet, continuing: —  p2pnet news
 

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calculating:   calculate ·  calculated ·  calculates
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/ˈkælkjuleɪtɪŋ/
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