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loss
[ laws, los ]
noun
- detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get:
to bear the loss of a robbery.
Antonyms: gain
- something that is lost:
The painting was the greatest loss from the robbery.
- an amount or number lost:
The loss of life increased each day.
- the state of being deprived of or of being without something that one has had:
the loss of old friends.
Synonyms: deprivation, privation
- death, or the fact of being dead:
to mourn the loss of a grandparent.
- the accidental or inadvertent losing of something dropped, misplaced, stolen, etc.:
to discover the loss of a document.
- a losing by defeat; failure to win:
the loss of a bet.
- failure to make good use of something, as time; waste.
- failure to preserve or maintain:
loss of engine speed at high altitudes.
- destruction or ruin:
the loss of a ship by fire.
- a thing or a number of related things that are lost or destroyed to some extent:
Most buildings in the burned district were a total loss.
- Military.
- the losing of soldiers by death, capture, etc.
- Often losses. the number of soldiers so lost.
- Insurance. occurrence of an event, as death or damage of property, for which the insurer makes indemnity under the terms of a policy.
- Electricity. a measure of the power lost in a system, as by conversion to heat, expressed as a relation between power input and power output, as the ratio of or difference between the two quantities.
loss
/ lɒs /
noun
- the act or an instance of losing
- the disadvantage or deprivation resulting from losing
a loss of reputation
- the person, thing, or amount lost
a large loss
- plural military personnel lost by death or capture
- sometimes plural the amount by which the costs of a business transaction or operation exceed its revenue
- a measure of the power lost in an electrical system expressed as the ratio of or difference between the input power and the output power
- insurance
- an occurrence of something that has been insured against, thus giving rise to a claim by a policyholder
- the amount of the resulting claim
- at a loss
- uncertain what to do; bewildered
- rendered helpless (for lack of something)
at a loss for words
- at less than the cost of buying, producing, or maintaining (something)
the business ran at a loss for several years
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- pre·loss noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of loss1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of loss1
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Idioms and Phrases
- at a loss,
- at less than cost; at a financial loss.
- in a state of bewilderment or uncertainty; puzzled; perplexed:
We are completely at a loss for an answer to the problem.
More idioms and phrases containing loss
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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