moral hazard

noun [U]

Definition

› a situation in which people or organizations do not suffer from the results of their bad decisions, so may increase the risks they take: The Bank of England argued that intervention would amount to "moral hazard".

(Definition of moral hazard noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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