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# losses

phrase (noun, plural: losses; singular a loss)

«losses» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (euphemism, official) soldiers or people killed (and sometimes wounded) in war or a disaster. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/losses/#m1)
2. money a business loses; the opposite of profits. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/losses/#m2)
3. (literal) games lost, or things lost. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/losses/#m3)

### In the lessons

Military reports and the news use it to talk about deaths in war without saying «killed». In business and sport, it is a normal word. Register: official, news; all regions.

### Examples

- News: The army suffered heavy losses in the battle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/losses/#x1)
- The town counted its losses after the flood. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/losses/#x2)
- The company made losses of two million pounds. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/losses/#x3)
- The team has three wins and two losses. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/losses/#x4)
- Maths: If income is £500 and costs are £700, the loss is £200. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/losses/#x5)
- Chat: «heavy losses» in war news = lots of soldiers died [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/losses/#x6)
- He had heavy losses in business, and several times some affairs went wrong with his neighbors. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/losses/#x7)

### Note

In war news it often means deaths; in business it means money; in sport it means games lost. In maths, a loss is a negative result: costs minus income. Plain words (war): people killed.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «losses» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/losses/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«losses» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/losses.html) on Mova free.