prospect vs risk

prospect

noun
  • The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable. 

  • Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect. 

  • A hope; a hopeful. 

  • The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation. 

  • A position affording a fine view; a lookout. 

  • The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook. 

  • A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape. 

  • Any player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a game for said team. 

  • A potential client or customer. 

  • The façade of an organ. 

verb
  • To search, as for gold. 

  • To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location. 

risk

noun
  • A thing (from the perspective of how likely or unlikely it is to cause an adverse effect). 

  • A possible adverse event or outcome. 

  • A borrower (such as a mortgage-holder or person with a credit card). 

  • An entity insured by an insurer. 

  • The potential negative effect of an event, determined by multiplying the likelihood of the event occurring with its magnitude should it occur. 

  • The magnitude of possible loss consequent to a decision or event. 

  • The probability of a negative outcome to a decision or event. 

  • A type of adverse event covered under an insurance policy. 

  • A financial product (typically an investment). 

verb
  • To incur risk as a result of (doing something). 

  • To incur risk of harming or jeopardizing. 

  • To incur risk of (something). 

How often have the words prospect and risk occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )