Learn English – A word that means suffering great loss if failed but highly profitable if successful

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This is a task that'll bring you back a great profit if successful but may also end you up with heavy loss even your life. I have been thinking whether there is one word or a phrase or some self invented compound word to substitute for the long attributive clause.

I have found a sentence:

The cave that you fear to enter holds the treasure that you seek.

So how about : This is a treasure-holding-but-you-fear-to-enter-cave task ??

Best Answer

As one commenter noted:

high-risk, maybe combined with high-reward

Therefore, I am surprised that no one has mentioned "high-stakes". From e.g. here:

a situation that has a lot of risk and in which someone is likely to either get or lose an advantage

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