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In the first part of this chapter, we have used the word likelihood as a synonym for probability, as we often do in our daily parlance. The reason for this rather imprecise use of the word “likelihood” is that we wanted to avoid using the word “probability” until it was properly introduced – and because we wanted to present the main definitions of risk concepts with the same wording that is used in many standards and guidelines.