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expose to a chance of loss or damage
We risked losing a lot of money in this venture
She laid her job on the line when she told the boss that he was wrong
Why risk your life?
How To Use put on the line In A Sentence
- If no taxpayer money was put on the line, how could the LTCM rescue set a precedent that "loans to unsound financial institutions would be made good by the Fed"?
- Then of course, there were the school rivalries, when everything heated up an extra notch and bodies were put on the line.
