Bias in the Dictionary?

This may or may not have anything to do with fitness or nutrition but I learned something very interesting yesterday. One of my fellow trainers and I were talking yesterday. She's a Middle School health teacher and she was grading a quiz. I grabbed a copy of the quiz to take a look at it. One of the questions had to do with the definition of risk. The correct answer was, "risk is defined as the possibility of loss or injury." That didn't seem right to me so I had to look it up. Here is the official Webster's Dictionary definition of risk:

1 : possibility of loss or injury : peril
2 : someone or something that creates or suggests a hazard
3 a : the chance of loss or the perils to the subject matter of an insurance contract; also : the degree of probability of such loss b : a person or thing that is a specified hazard to an insurer c : an insurance hazard from a specified cause or source
4 : the chance that an investment (as a stock or commodity) will lose value

Now, I've heard people talk about bias even in the dictionary and I always thought they were quacks...until yesterday when I read the definition for risk. That definition focuses solely on the potential negative results from taking a risk. What about the positive outcomes from taking a risk?? In our society we all admire the risk takers but too often we shy away from taking a risk because of the potential negative outcomes. Truth is, I think in many instances not taking the chance on something and just maintaining the status quo is far more hazardous than any potential negative outcomes. A more appropriate definition might be "an action where the outcome is uncertain."

I never thought I would pen a dictionary rant. Everyone have a tremendous snowy Octobor weekend!!