losses

loss (lôs, l

1. The act or an instance of losing: nine losses during the football season.

a. One that is lost: wrote their flooded house off as a loss.

b. The condition of being deprived or bereaved of something or someone: mourning their loss.

c. The amount of something lost: selling at a 50 percent loss.

3. The harm or suffering caused by losing or being lost.

4. losses People lost in wartime; casualties.

5. Destruction: The war caused incalculable loss.

6. Electricity The power decrease caused by resistance in a circuit, circuit element, or device.

7. The amount of a claim on an insurer by an insured.

Idiom:

at a loss

1. Below cost: sold the merchandise at a loss.

2. Perplexed; puzzled: I am at a loss to understand those remarks.

[Middle English los, from Old English; see lose.]

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Noun

losses - something lost (especially money lost at gambling)

losings

financial loss - loss of money or decrease in financial value

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alopecia
amnesia
anaesthesia
anesthesia
anterograde amnesia
at a loss
blackout
brokenheartedness
capital loss
compensation
conduction deafness
conductive hearing loss
damages
Deliquium
financial loss
hearing disorder
hearing impairment
hearing loss
indemnity

As for the other losses, the poet's relation doth well figure them: that he that preferred Helena, quitted the gifts of Juno and Pallas.

The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context

On hearing of my losses, however, he only remarked with a sharp, and even a malicious, air that "a man ought to go more carefully.

The Gambler by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context

And I thought it was a ditty rather too dolefully appropriate for a company that had met such cruel losses in the morning.

Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context

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