'Loss' definitions:
Definition of 'loss'
From: WordNet
noun
Something that is lost; "the car was a total loss"; "loss of livestock left the rancher bankrupt"
noun
Gradual decline in amount or activity; "weight loss"; "a serious loss of business"
noun
The act of losing someone or something; "everyone expected him to win so his loss was a shock"
noun
The disadvantage that results from losing something; "his loss of credibility led to his resignation"; "losing him is no great deprivation" [syn: loss, deprivation]
noun
The experience of losing a loved one; "he sympathized on the loss of their grandfather"
noun
The amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue; "the company operated at a loss last year"; "the company operated in the red last year" [syn: loss, red ink, red] [ant: gain]
noun
Military personnel lost by death or capture [syn: personnel casualty, loss]
noun
Definition of 'Loss'
From: GCIDE
- Loss \Loss\ (l[o^]s; 115), n. [AS. los loss, losing, fr. le['i]san to lose. [root]127. See Lose, v. t.]
- 1. The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as, the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation. [1913 Webster]
- Assured loss before the match be played. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The state of losing or having lost; the privation, defect, misfortune, harm, etc., which ensues from losing. [1913 Webster]
- Though thou repent, yet I have still the loss. --Shak [1913 Webster]
- 3. That which is lost or from which one has parted; waste; -- opposed to gain or increase; as, the loss of liquor by leakage was considerable. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The state of being lost or destroyed; especially, the wreck or foundering of a ship or other vessel. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Failure to gain or win; as, loss of a race or battle. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Failure to use advantageously; as, loss of time. [1913 Webster]
- 7. (Mil.) Killed, wounded, and captured persons, or captured property. [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Insurance) 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; as, the losses of the company this year amount to a million of dollars. [1913 Webster]
- To bear a loss, to make a loss good; also, to sustain a loss without sinking under it.
- To be at a loss, to be in a state of uncertainty.
- Syn: Privation; detriment; injury; damage. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'loss'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ablation,
- annihilation,
- attrition,
- bankruptcy,
- bereavement,
- breakage,
- breakdown,
- collapse,
- confusion,
- consumption,
- corrosion,
- crack-up,
- crippling,
- damage,
- death,
- decrement,
- defeat,
- deliquescence,
- demise,
- denial,
- depletion,
- deprivation,
- deprivement,
- destruction,
- detriment,
- devastation,
- dilapidation,
- diminution,
- disablement,
- disadvantage,
- disappearance,
- disappointment,
- dispossession,
- disrepair,
- dissipation,
- dissolution,
- divestment,
- downfall,
- drawback,
- drubbing,
- dying,
- encroachment,
- erosion,
- exhaustion,
- extermination,
- extinction,
- failure,
- forfeit,
- forfeiture,
- handicap,
- harm,
- havoc,
- hobbling,
- hurt,
- hurting,
- impairment,
- impoverishment,
- incapacitation,
- infringement,
- injury,
- inroad,
- liability,
- losing,
- losings,
- loss of ground,
- losses,
- maiming,
- mayhem,
- mischief,
- mislaying,
- misplacement,
- misplacing,
- mutilation,
- passing,
- prejudice,
- privation,
- reduction,
- ruin,
- ruination,
- ruinousness,
- sabotage,
- sacrifice,
- scathe,
- shrinkage,
- sickening,
- spoiling,
- squandering,
- step backward,
- trouncing,
- wastage,
- waste,
- wasting,
- weakening,
- wear and tear
Words containing 'Loss'
- Lossful,
- To be at a loss,
- at a loss,
- losses,
- Core loss,
- To bear a loss,
- capital loss,
- financial loss,
- hearing loss,
- loss leader,
- loss of consciousness,
- loss ratio,
- memory loss,
- paper loss,
- profit and loss,
- total loss,
- turn a loss,
- conductive hearing loss,
- profit and loss account,
- sensorineural hearing loss,
- profit-and-loss statement,
- stop-loss order