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Losses   /lˈɔsəz/  /lˈɔsɪz/   Listen
Losses

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


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"  Antonym: gain.
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



... at Newmarket, dances, duels, losses at cards—Lady Fareham touched every subject, and expatiated on all; but she had usually more to tell of the country she had left than of that ...
— London Pride - Or When the World Was Younger • M. E. Braddon
... War the bonds of economic solidarity have been torn asunder: the losers in the War must not only make good their own losses, but, according to the treaties, are expected to pay for all the damage which the War has caused. Meanwhile all the countries of Europe have only one prevailing fear: German competition. In order to pay the indemnities imposed upon her (and she can only ...
— Peaceless Europe • Francesco Saverio Nitti
... one of your royal decrees, dated at Madrid, on the sixteenth of February in the past year, one thousand six hundred and thirty-five—issued on account of the information which you had from this royal Audiencia of the losses which these islands have suffered, during the past thirty years and more, from Cachil Corralat, king of the great island of Mindanao, from the kings of Jolo and Burney, and from the Camucones. They have plundered the islands, and taken captive the poor Christian Indians, ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 (Vol 27 of 55) • Various
... a god, remember? And gods are infallible. Sira Nal can explain a few disappearances by accusations of irreverence, but he'll know better than to try explaining too many that way. I should imagine that the normal losses due to unexpected storms just about use up ...
— The Players • Everett B. Cole
... suffered irreparable losses. The very sacred reliquary containing the severed head of St. Denis was destroyed, and the remains of the martyr and his companions desecrated. The royal bones and bodies were also disinterred and flung into trenches indiscriminately. The tombs of the kings were condemned ...
— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 • Various


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