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Definitions for Loss

[1] detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get: to bear the loss of a robbery.
[2] something that is lost: The painting was the greatest loss from the robbery.
[3] an amount or number lost: The loss of life increased each day.
[4] the state of being deprived of or of being without something that one has had: the loss of old friends.
[5] death, or the fact of being dead: to mourn the loss of a grandparent.
[6] the accidental or inadvertent losing of something dropped, misplaced, stolen, etc.: to discover the loss of a document.
[7] a losing by defeat; failure to win: the loss of a bet.
[8] failure to make good use of something, as time; waste.
[9] failure to preserve or maintain: loss of engine speed at high altitudes.
[10] destruction or ruin: the loss of a ship by fire.
[11] 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.
[12] Military . the losing of soldiers by death, capture, etc. Often losses. the number of soldiers so lost.
[13] Insurance . occurrence of an event, as death or damage of property, for which the insurer makes indemnity under the terms of a policy.
[14] 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.
[15] 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.
[16] the act or an instance of losing
[17] the disadvantage or deprivation resulting from losing a loss of reputation
[18] the person, thing, or amount lost a large loss
[19] (plural) military personnel lost by death or capture
[20] (sometimes plural) the amount by which the costs of a business transaction or operation exceed its revenue
[21] 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
[22] 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
[23] 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

Words related to Loss

debt, disaster, accident, fall, damage, failure, cost, defeat, trouble, injury, catastrophe, casualty, destruction, undoing, harm, misadventure, dispossession, mishap, deficiency, want

Words nearby Loss

losing battle, a, losing hazard, losingest, losings, loslyf, loss, loss adjuster, loss function, loss leader, loss ratio, lossless

Origin of Loss

before 900; Middle English; Old English los destruction; cognate with Old Norse los looseness, breaking up. See lose, loose

Words that may be confused with Loss

loose, loosen, lose, loss

Other words from Loss

pre·loss , noun

Word origin for Loss

C14: noun probably formed from lost, past participle of losen to perish, from Old English lōsian to be destroyed, from los destruction

Synonyms for Loss

accident, casualty, catastrophe, cost, damage, debt, defeat, destruction, disaster, failure, fall, injury, trouble, bereavement, calamity, cataclysm, death, debit, deficiency, depletion, deprivation, destitution, detriment, disadvantage, disappearance, dispossession, fatality, forfeiture, harm, hurt, impairment, misadventure, mishap, need, perdition, privation, retardation, ruin, sacrifice, shrinkage, squandering, trial, undoing, want, waste, wreckage, bad luck, losing, mislaying, misplacing