do you say "mitigate risk" or "mitigate against risk"?

Answer 1

mitigate THE risk

Answer 2

Mitigate Against

Answer 3

mitigate risk.

You are implying that whatever risk you are at, you have taken a strategy that will minimize the downside while not eliminating it. i.e. if a problem will cause you to have a power outage, you have mitigated the risk by having spares on site that causes the power outage to be an hour, rather than 24 hours while you wait for the part to be delivered.

to mitigate against risk (I've never said or heard it that way) implies you are doing something to remove the risk.

Answer 4

"mitigate risk" is definitely ok. "mitigate against" is a usage that has crept into the language to an extent that it is probably passable in most contexts. (It seems be to a conflation of "mitigate" with "militate". Millitate always takes "against". )My feeling is why use the extra word if it's not required, go with "mitigate risk"

Answer 5

mitigate risk

Answer 6

Look up the definition of "mitigate", then substitute the definition for the word in both of the above phrases and decide for yourself which is correct.

Answer 7

To mitigate means to appease or to make it milder. Since you didn't write the whole question, I can't tell you what they are asking for.

Answer 8

both ways are acceptable, but mitigate risk would be the most acceptable...

Answer 9

Same as 'I WAS graduated from.....'
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Answer 10

1 is the only correct one