Definitions for losses

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losses loss

Spelling: [laws, los]

IPA: /lɔs, lɒs/

Losses is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in losses (elosss).

Definitions for losses

noun

1. detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get:
2. something that is lost:
3. an amount or number lost:
4. the state of being deprived of or of being without something that one has had:
5. death, or the fact of being dead:
6. the accidental or inadvertent losing of something dropped, misplaced, stolen, etc.:
7. a losing by defeat; failure to win:
8. failure to make good use of something, as time; waste.
9. failure to preserve or maintain:
10. destruction or ruin:
11. a thing or a number of related things that are lost or destroyed to some extent:
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.

Idioms

1. at a loss, at less than cost; at a financial loss. in a state of bewilderment or uncertainty; puzzled; perplexed:

Origin of losses

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

Examples for losses

The losses sustained by the Brigade were indisputably most severe.

It is to these circumstances that most of the losses were due.

So do losses, such as the widespread legalization of same-sex marriage.

These losses are doubtless irreparable so far as the stocks in question are concerned.

After the losses that left virtually no American family untouched, the outcome of the war remained uncertain.

The rest of the losses came in Romney red states, plus purple North Carolina (where Sen. Kay Hagan lost by only 1.7 percent).

The losses in New York City alone were said to be fifty millions.

If he could have a bet on The Dutchman he would surely recoup his losses.

And my opinion is that each time we will see that, the losses will increase.

Their passion for turning their losses into service assured us the leap would be worth it.