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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024loss /lɔs, lɑs/USA pronunciation n. - the act of losing possession of something: [uncountable]bearing the loss of property.[countable]a temporary loss of hearing.
- something that is lost:[countable]suffered huge losses in the market crash.
- the death of a person:[countable]to mourn the loss of a grandparent.
- a losing by defeat:[countable]Another two losses and our team will be eliminated.
- decrease:[uncountable]loss of engine speed.
Idioms- Idioms at a loss:
- at less than cost:selling everything at a loss.
- in a state of bewilderment or uncertainty:I'm at a complete loss to understand what she's doing.
- dead loss, [countable] a completely useless or worthless person or thing:That decrepit old car is a dead loss.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024loss (lôs, los),USA pronunciation n. - detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get:to bear the loss of a robbery.
- 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.
- 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.
- Business[Insurance.]occurrence of an event, as death or damage of property, for which the insurer makes indemnity under the terms of a policy.
- Electricitya 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.
- Idioms 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.
- bef. 900; Middle English; Old English los destruction; cognate with Old Norse los looseness, breaking up. See lose, loose
- 4.See corresponding entry in Unabridged privation, deprivation.
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged gain.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: loss /lɒs/ n - 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
- 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
Etymology: 14th Century: noun probably formed from lost, past participle of losen to perish, from Old English lōsian to be destroyed, from los destruction |