Loss

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act or an instance of losing: nine losses during the football season.
  • n. One that is lost: wrote their flooded house off as a loss.
  • n. The condition of being deprived or bereaved of something or someone: mourning their loss.
  • n. The amount of something lost: selling at a 50 percent loss.
  • n. The harm or suffering caused by losing or being lost.
  • n. People lost in wartime; casualties.
  • n. Destruction: The war caused incalculable loss.
  • n. Electricity The power decrease caused by resistance in a circuit, circuit element, or device.
  • n. The amount of a claim on an insurer by an insured.
  • idiom. at a loss Below cost: sold the merchandise at a loss.
  • idiom. at a loss Perplexed; puzzled: I am at a loss to understand those remarks.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. an instance of losing, such as a defeat
  • n. something that is lost
  • n. the hurtful condition of having lost something or someone
  • n. casualties, especially physically eliminated victims of violent conflict
  • n. the sum an entity loses on balance
  • n. destruction, ruin
  • n. electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation
  • n. The state of losing or having lost; the privation, defect, misfortune, harm, etc., which ensues from losing.
  • n. That which is lost or from which one has parted; waste; -- opposed to gain or increase.
  • n. The state of being lost or destroyed; especially, the wreck or foundering of a ship or other vessel.
  • n. Failure to gain or win.
  • n. Failure to use advantageously.
  • n. Killed, wounded, and captured persons, or captured property.
  • n. Destruction or diminution of value, if brought about in a manner provided for in the insurance contract (as destruction by fire or wreck, damage by water or smoke), or the death or injury of an insured person; also, the sum paid or payable therefor.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Failure to hold, keep, or preserve what one has had in his possession; disappearance from possession, use, or knowledge; deprivation of that which one has had: as, the loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation; loss of children: opposed to gain.
  • n. Specifically, death.
  • n. Failure to gain or win: as, the loss of a prize or battle.
  • n. That which is lost or forfeited; that which has been scattered or wasted: as, the loss by leakage amounted to 20 gallons; an insurance company's loss by a fire.
  • n. Defeat; overthrow; ruin.
  • n. Lack; want.
  • n. The state of being at fault; the state of having lost the trail and scent of game.
  • n. At such a price as to lose or incur loss.
  • n. To sustain a loss with spirit or fortitude.
  • n. Synonyms Loss, Detriment, Damage, Waste, Forfeiture, etc. Loss is the class word under which detriment, damage, waste, forfeiture, etc., are species. Loss, detriment, and damage apply to persons or things; waste and forfeiture only to things. As to detriment and damage, see injury. Waste is generally voluntary, although not always realized; sometimes it is only by neglect. Forfeiture is a loss through the law, as a penalty or as the result of neglect.
  • n. See loess.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the act of losing someone or something
  • n. the disadvantage that results from losing something
  • n. something that is lost
  • n. gradual decline in amount or activity
  • n. the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue
  • n. euphemistic expressions for death
  • n. the experience of losing a loved one
  • n. military personnel lost by death or capture
  • Antonym
    profit   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    disadvantage    death    decease    expiry    experience   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    detriment    damage    privation    injury    failure    destruction    waste   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cos    Cross    Ross    across    boss    cos    coss    criss-cross    cross    dos   
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    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    failure    change    value    increase    lack    condition    cost    pain    destruction    return