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Losses   /lˈɔsəz/  /lˈɔsɪz/   Listen
Losses

noun
1.
Something lost (especially money lost at gambling).  Synonym: losings.


Loss

noun
1.
Something that is lost.  "Loss of livestock left the rancher bankrupt"
2.
Gradual decline in amount or activity.  "A serious loss of business"
3.
The act of losing someone or something.
4.
The disadvantage that results from losing something.  Synonym: deprivation.  "Losing him is no great deprivation"
5.
The experience of losing a loved one.
6.
The amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue.  Synonyms: red, red ink.  "The company operated in the red last year"
7.
Military personnel lost by death or capture.  Synonym: personnel casualty.
8.
Euphemistic expressions for death.  Synonyms: departure, exit, expiration, going, passing, release.



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"Losses" Quotes from Famous Books



... railway accident; his favourite brother was drowned; the girl to whom he was first engaged went into rapid consumption; and no sooner had he married the lady you see, than she indirectly experienced misfortune through the heavy monetary losses of her father. At last he became convinced that he must be labouring under the influence of a curse, and, filled with a curious desire to see if he had 'the evil eye,'—people of course said he was mad—he went to Sicily. Arriving ...
— Byways of Ghost-Land • Elliott O'Donnell
... the losses of Mewar, but with difficulty her acquisitions.... She was an old-established dynasty when all the other States were in embryo." Long before Richard of the Lion-heart fared to Palestine to wrest the Holy City from the infidel, "a hundred kings, its (Mewar's) ...
— A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil • T. R. Swinburne
... the Jew. "If it will feed nothing else it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, ...
— English Literature For Boys And Girls • H.E. Marshall
... a probable error of one in seven," replied the younger Vorkul. "And because that figure cannot be improved within the next seven years and because of the exceptional weakness of the hexans due to their unexpectedly great losses upon Callisto, we are attacking at this time. Their spherical vessels are nothing, of course. It is in the reduction of the city that we will lose men and vessels. But at that, each of us has five chances in seven ...
— Spacehounds of IPC • Edward Elmer Smith
... not—what is it but a refined species of usury? a hoard lodged beyond all reach of bankruptcy? a store for futurity? exempt from the numerous losses and disappointments of those who mistake the blessing of wealth to consist in its power of ...
— Brief Reflections relative to the Emigrant French Clergy (1793) • Frances Burney


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