Loss

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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              Assured loss before the match be played. --Shak.
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     2. The state of losing or having lost; the privation, defect,
        misfortune, harm, etc., which ensues from losing.
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              Though thou repent, yet I have still the loss.
                                                    --Shak
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     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.
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     4. The state of being lost or destroyed; especially, the
        wreck or foundering of a ship or other vessel.
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     5. Failure to gain or win; as, loss of a race or battle.
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     6. Failure to use advantageously; as, loss of time.
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     7. (Mil.) Killed, wounded, and captured persons, or captured
        property.
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     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.
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     {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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  loss
       n 1: the act of losing; "everyone expected him to win so his loss
            was a shock"
       2: something that is lost; "the car was a total loss"; "loss of
          livestock left the rancher bankrupt"
       3: 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: {red ink}, {red}]
          [ant: {gain}]
       4: gradual decline in amount or activity; "weight loss"; "a
          serious loss of business"
       5: the disadvantage that results from losing something; "his
          loss of credibility led to his resignation"; "losing him
          is no great deprivation" [syn: {deprivation}]
       6: military personnel lost by death or capture [syn: {personnel
          casualty}]
       7: the experience of losing a loved one; "he sympathized on the
          loss of their grandfather"
       8: euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his
          passing" [syn: {passing}, {departure}, {exit}, {expiration},
           {going}, {release}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  94 Moby Thesaurus words for "loss":
     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
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  loss n. Something (not a person) that loses; a situation in which
     something is losing. Emphatic forms include `moby loss', and `total
     loss', `complete loss'. Common interjections are "What a loss!" and
     "What a moby loss!" Note that `moby loss' is OK even though **`moby
     loser' is not used; applied to an abstract noun, moby is simply a
     magnifier, whereas when applied to a person it implies substance and has
     positive connotations. Compare {lossage}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  loss
       
           Something (not a person) that loses; a situation in
          which something is losing.  Emphatic forms include "moby
          loss", and "total loss", "complete loss".  Common
          interjections are "What a loss!"  and "What a moby loss!"
          Note that "moby loss" is OK even though **"moby loser" is not
          used; applied to an abstract noun, moby is simply a magnifier,
          whereas when applied to a person it implies substance and has
          positive connotations.
       
          Compare {lossage}.
       
          (1995-04-19)
       
       

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  LOSS, contracts. The deprivation of something which one had, which was 
  either advantageous, agreeable or commodious. 
       2. In cases of partnership, the losses are in general borne by the 
  partners equally, unless stipulations or circumstance's manifest a different 
  intention. Story, Partn. Sec. 24. But it is not essential that the partners 
  should all share the losses. They may agree, that if there shall be no 
  profits, but a loss, that the loss shall be borne by one or more of the 
  partners exclusively, and that the others shall, inter se, be exempted from 
  all liabilities for losses. Colly. Partn. 11; Gow, Partn. 9; 3 M. & Wels. 
  357; 5 Barn. & Ald. 954 Story, Partn. Sec. 23. 
       3. When a thing sold is lost by an accident, as by fire, the loss falls 
  on the owner, res perit domino, and questions not unfrequently arise, as to 
  whether the thing has been delivered and passed to the purchaser, or whether 
  it remains still the property of the seller. See, on this subject, Delivery. 
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  LOSS, n.  Privation of that which we had, or had not.  Thus, in the
  latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he "lost his
  election"; and of that eminent man, the poet Gilder, that he has "lost
  his mind."  It is in the former and more legitimate sense, that the
  word is used in the famous epitaph:
  
      Here Huntington's ashes long have lain
      Whose loss is our eternal gain,
      For while he exercised all his powers
      Whatever he gained, the loss was ours.