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What does flight risk mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word flight risk? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (law, uncountable) The possibility that a person under the custody of law enforcement will abscond if granted bail.
  2. (law, countable) A person who is considered likely to abscond.
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The police should detain only those individuals who pose a danger to society, are a flight risk, or whom the police have no authority to release.
His attorneys opted not to seek his release on bail, in part because he was judged a flight risk.
As to coercive measures, one of the necessary prerequisites is the actual occurrence of flight or a flight risk.
The judge set bail pretty high because George is such a flight risk.
In all likelihood, he would go to jail, because he would be considered a flight risk.
Having pilots operate aircraft at low altitudes without specific guidance and training increases operational flight risk.

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