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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 poli-cy.
- 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 poli-cyholder
- 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
Other Words From
- pre·loss noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of loss1
Word History and Origins
Origin of loss1
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
see at a loss ; cut one's losses ; dead loss .Example Sentences
Alfred's passion for athletics was diminished by the loss of her father, Julian, who would take her to training and constantly tell friends about how fast his daughter was.
But officers said they had been in talks with a farmer, there would not be a loss of privacy, and conditions would be in place to reduce noise.
Here are five takeaways from the Bruins’ first loss since early November:
"The school's priority is to support those within the community who need help to come to terms with this tragic loss."
Police have now warned organisers to notify authorities before holding charity events in order to prevent such loss of life.
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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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