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Loss   /lɔs/   Listen
Loss

noun
1.
Something that is lost.  "Loss of livestock left the rancher bankrupt"
2.
Gradual decline in amount or activity.  "A serious loss of business"
3.
The act of losing someone or something.
4.
The disadvantage that results from losing something.  Synonym: deprivation.  "Losing him is no great deprivation"
5.
The experience of losing a loved one.
6.
The amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue.  Synonyms: red, red ink.  "The company operated in the red last year"
7.
Military personnel lost by death or capture.  Synonym: personnel casualty.
8.
Euphemistic expressions for death.  Synonyms: departure, exit, expiration, going, passing, release.



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"Loss" Quotes from Famous Books



... easy answer. Books were not cheap or common in the 16th and 17th centuries. Many people had sung them so often as to know them by heart. A comparison of the Bible and Prayer Book translations will show that there was no large gain to be set against the loss of congregational worship which must have resulted from changes. The Bishops' Bible supplanted the Great Bible in 1568, and the Authorised Version was made in 1611. Both in 1604 and in 1662 the Revisers decided to retain ...
— The Prayer Book Explained • Percival Jackson
... quick and certain death. This successful theft was, no doubt, considered by the Indians a cause for great rejoicing. It may have formed the basis of promoting the brave who planned and directed it, as the animals had been obtained without the loss of a man or even the receiving of a wound. The parties living at the Fort were equally as poorly off for horses and mules as were now the trappers. The same Indians had recently performed the same trick upon them. The loss was ...
— The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself • De Witt C. Peters
... manhood and remained away for some years. His family understood that he had gone to seek a fortune in the wilds of the earth. He reappeared—a saturnine silent man—as suddenly as he had gone away. In his wanderings he had gained a fortune but partly lost the use of one eye. The partial loss of an eye did not matter much in a country like England, where most people have two eyes and very little money, and therefore pay more respect to wealth ...
— The Moon Rock • Arthur J. Rees
... like yours, seem to be sprinkled through the world, to give credit, by their example, to religion and virtue. When such persons wilfully err, how great must be the fault! How ungrateful to that God, who blessed them with such talents! What a loss likewise to the world! What a wound to virtue!—But this, I hope, will never be to be said ...
— Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) • Samuel Richardson
... most folk more easily than a hungry one?—True, Bailie, very true; and I believe there may even be some who would be consoled by such a reflection for the loss of the whole existing generation. But there is a sorrow which knows neither hunger nor thirst; and poor Flora'—He paused, and the whole ...
— Waverley • Sir Walter Scott


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