casualtycas‧u‧al‧ty /ˈkæʒuəlti/ ●●○ noun (plural casualties) 
Our aim is to reduce road casualties. civilian casualties (=people who are not soldiers who are injured or killed)cause/inflict casualties The rebels have inflicted heavy casualties.2[singular] someone or something that suffers as a result of a particular event or situationcasualty of The Safer City Project is the latest casualty of financial cutbacks.3[uncountable] (also Casualty) British English the part of a hospital that people are taken to when they are hurt in an accident or suddenly become ill SYN Emergency Room American Englishin casualty Jean ended up in casualty last night.
WORD ORIGINcasualty
Origin:
1400-1500 Medieval Latin casualitas ‘chance, bad luck, loss’, from Late Latin casualis; ➔ CASUALEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- First reports of the air crash tell of more than 50 casualties.
- Indian troops have suffered more than 1200 casualties.
- The bomb caused serious damage to the building, but there were no casualties.
- The company is the latest casualty of the worldwide recession.
- The corruption scandal has claimed yet another casualty: the Finance Minister, who was forced to resign last night.
- Every day you will have casualties, because they will disturb your work.
- Expect to take casualties as you advance, especially Goblins.
- Second, unlike other wars, there are no real casualties in this one, but a lot of winners.
- The Treasury, where two ministers were election casualties, receives an infusion of new blood.
- We had about twenty casualties from our own immediate district.
THESAURUSparts of a hospital
British English, emergency room/ER American English the part of a hospital where people who are injured or who need urgent treatment are brought: · A&E waiting times have gone down.· A 33-year-old man was brought to the emergency room in a coma.
British English, operating room American English a room in a hospital where operations are done: · Mrs Barnett was in the operating theatre for 11 hours while the transplant was carried out.
the part of a hospital where people who are very seriously ill or badly injured are cared for: · Mr Dye is in intensive care with head injuries.
part of a hospital where a particular kind of treatment is carried out: · the burns unit· the fertility unit
a large room in a hospital where people who need medical treatment stay: · the women's ward· She works as a nurse on a busy hospital ward.
Longman Language Activatora part of a hospital a part of a hospital where a particular type of medical problem is treated: · Funding has been approved for a 40-bed unit for the elderly at Aberdare General Hospital.coronary/psychiatric/intensive care etc unit: · A new psychiatric unit will be added to the John F. Kennedy Medical Center.
British /emergency room American the part of a hospital you go to for emergency treatment, for example if you have had an accident or if you suddenly become very ill: · He arrived in casualty with multiple injuries to his head.· Thorpe was treated in the casualty department at Middlesborough General.· Emergency room doctors tried to save Ryan's life.
a large room in a hospital or a part of a hospital where a group of patients with similar medical conditions have their beds: · Linda is a doctor in a ward for premature babies.psychiatry/maternity/pediatric etc ward: · When her baby was due, Barbara was admitted to the maternity ward of Mercy Hospital.
: outpatient clinic/department a part of a hospital where people come in for treatment, although they do not stay at the hospital: · Two outpatient clinics in the area are offering drug treatment programs.
someone who is injured hurt in an accident, fight etc: · Firefighters had to cut off the roof of the car, so that the injured man could be lifted out.the injured (=people who are injured): · The injured were rushed to St Thomas's Hospital.
injured, especially in a war, by a weapon such as a knife, gun, or bomb: · a wounded soldier· There are over 4000 refugees in the camp, many of them wounded.the wounded (=people who are wounded): · Helicopters have been sent in to rescue the wounded from the war zone.
also paralyzed American unable to move part or all of your body because of a serious injury or illness: · Mrs Burrows had been paralysed by a stroke, and could not move or speak.leave somebody paralysed: · The fall had left him permanently paralysed.be paralysed from the neck/chest/waist down: · Paralysed from the neck down, Bundini could only move his eyes.
someone who has been injured or killed in a war, attack, or accident: · The bomb caused serious damage to the building, but there were no casualties.suffer casualties: · Indian troops have suffered more than 1200 casualties.
someone who suffers someone who suffers because of an illness, accident, crime etc: · a murder victim· Heart attack victims stand a better chance if they are treated immediately.· They are launching a massive aid program to help the famine victims.victim of: · Our aim is to help victims of crime.
someone who suffers as a result of an event or situation over which they have no control - used especially in news reports: · The corruption scandal has claimed yet another casualty: the Finance Minister, who was forced to resign last night.casualty of: · The company is the latest casualty of the worldwide recession.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Our aim is to reduce road casualties. civilian casualties (=people who are not soldiers who are injured or killed) The rebels have inflicted heavy casualties.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES There were heavy casualties on both sides.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
1[countable] someone who is hurt or killed in an accident or war: Our aim is to reduce road casualties. civilian casualties (=people who are not soldiers who are injured or killed) The rebels have inflicted heavy casualties. (=in a hospital)· I had to go to the physiotherapy department for treatment twice a week.
There were heavy casualties on both sides.· Even in the days of precision strikes, attacks from the air would risk civilian casualties.· One outstanding feature of that war was how few civilian casualties there were.· A series of air raids resulted in a number of civilian casualties.· The total number of civilian casualties was seventy-seven, most of whom had suffered bruises or lacerations to the head.· There were no figures given for civilian casualties.· Most of the civilian casualties were incurred here.· The same suspicions, particularly in relation to civilian casualties, doubtless apply to footage from Baghdad.
· Another early casualty was James, the son of Zebedee whom Herod killed with a sword.· But moderation was an early casualty in nominating conventions.· An early casualty was the tricycle idea.
· In the end, they managed to win but only at a cost of heavy casualties and political humiliation.· Some other stations don't have such good security, you know, and their crime-fighting shows rack up pretty heavy casualties.· B Company had already sustained heavy casualties from the landing and the patrol lost.· He said both sides had suffered heavy casualties.· According to some reports, both sides sustained heavy casualties.· Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind has warned any offensive ground action would involve more than 100,000 men and lead to heavy casualties.
· Television reports of higher casualties could not be confirmed, and some accounts said that the policemen had been tortured and mutilated.· Accident and school roll data have been analysed to identify those schools which have high casualty rates per head of school roll.· The risks were high and the casualties many.
· Both sides had what they wanted, and neither wanted to risk large casualties to seize what the other had.
· McGee could come in for Andy Mockler, who is the latest injury casualty and leaves McHale with a depleted squad.· Left wing Eric Lacroix became the latest injury casualty for the Kings.· The meeting came on the same day the latest casualty of the rent increases left his pub.· The Rosemont Ranch is merely the latest casualty in a war where no prisoners are taken.
· Apart from Beaton himself, the major casualty was Mary of Guise.· This will be very important when, following a major casualty, the Policyholder is seeking immediate help from us.· There were no major casualties on a day in which only four men broke par.· In the recovery process, though, a major casualty was polyester.· Consumer and building stocks were the major casualties.· Alphameric was the day's major casualty with its shares plunging 32 percent to 23p as hopes for its profit recovery faded.
· Wars nowadays are fought against civilians; the bulk of military casualties these days are women and children.· A court notice reported the economic loss of the two vehicles, but did not mention any military casualties.· The action caused 441 military casualties and 197 naval casualties.
· The only terminal casualty of this extraordinary occurrence, apart from the aeroplane, was a hare which it struck on landing.· Ted wasn't the only casualty at Pipeline.· The only casualties I hear of are a couple of pleasure boats which dragged their moorings and were damaged on the shore.· The only casualty came in the first week after the ceasefire last August.· Mr Patten was the only Cabinet casualty, although eight other middle-ranking and junior ministers also lost their seats.· The first, and apparently only casualty was the little corn mill at Dowdeswell, immediately deprived of its water supply.
· War movies were the other first casualty of war.· Are Strach, DoL, Tinkler and the other casualties fit yet?· You will meet him if you decide to stay here tonight. there have been other casualties, killed and wounded.· The majority of other pedestrian casualties were people over 60.
· There was one more serious casualty.· An omission which might have and may still cost him serious casualties to personnel north of the Qattara depression. 2.· The proportion of fatal and serious casualties to pedestrians fell, from 24 percent to 22 percent.
· Many were found to be dead and the total casualties were reported to be about a hundred.· The total number of casualties was less than 150.· Figure 18.1 shows how the total casualties fell over this period even though the number of vehicles on the road was increasing.· Nevertheless, the total number of casualties is the second lowest annual total since the Region was formed in 1975.
NOUN· If the relatives could not pick the patient up, he would be lodged in the casualty department of the local hospital.· Discussion Patients admitted to casualty departments with acutely disturbed behaviour present a major diagnostic challenge.· He concluded that there had been an accident and the body was removed to the Norfolk and Norwich casualty department.· The X-ray and casualty departments on the ground floor were closed during the height of the storm on Thursday evening.· The youth he rescued, known only as a Mr Thorpe, was treated in the casualty department at Middlesbrough General.· Non-playing colleagues rushed him to the local casualty department, where a large plaster cast was fixed on to the injured area.· It began to prey on my mind so much that I went to the casualty department of Charing Cross Hospital.· Patients admitted to the casualty department with disordered behaviour present a considerable diagnostic challenge.
· Apart from the risks to car drivers, passengers, and cyclists themselves however, pedestrian casualty figures are also alarming.· The respective casualty figures are, as usual, uncertain.· Without their present powers even more of us would drive without due care and attention and the road casualty figures would soar.· No casualty figures were available, but civilians living near the headquarters fled.
· The list was so long and detailed it resembled a casualty list following a small battle.· Add Apple Computer Inc. to the growing casualty list of companies mired in the slumping personal computer market.· Jones finished last season on the casualty list.· The Maritime school can counter-claim that casualty lists were far shorter in these two wars.· The casualty list is so long that manager Walter Smith can barely face talking about it.· The casualty list was 307, and the devastation immense.· The casualty lists were growing longer and longer.
· Furthermore, it is clear from the accident records that the casualty rate is higher in each age group.· The casualty rate of entrepreneurs is very high.· Both road traffic and the overall casualty rate per passenger mile went up by one percent.· Considering the relatively small number of men actually at risk, the casualty rates were very high.· Unofficial statistics put the casualty rates much higher.· It hopes this will give it a more accurate picture of the actual casualty rate.· Passenger casualty rates have fallen by 30 percent. in the past five years.· Accident and school roll data have been analysed to identify those schools which have high casualty rates per head of school roll.
· Without their present powers even more of us would drive without due care and attention and the road casualty figures would soar.· It is heartening to know that road casualties present no substantial threat to the toads at this particular lake.· Of course we helped to reduce road casualties by removing toads from the road for marking.· Working groups hope to reduce all road casualties by a third in the region by 2000.· I mentioned the primary objective of reducing the number of road casualties.· Clearly, reducing the number of road casualties is and has been a priority for the Government for some time.
· A nine hour wait.Anger over long delays in casualty unit.· Insurance stocks rallied after Xerox said it will sell its property and casualty unit to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts&.· The sting in the tail of the recent good weather has been noticed in the casualty units of at least two local hospitals.· Selling property and casualty unit g. W. R. Grace & Co. 7.· A 75-year-old stroke patient died there last December when he fell from a trolley outside the casualty unit.· Brunel University claim their dressing room looked like a casualty unit after the clash with Hayes.
VERB· Much was seized for food by a starving population, and much became the casualty of unexploded mines and bombs.· Left wing Eric Lacroix became the latest injury casualty for the Kings.· A police patrol car also became a casualty after officers attempted to help stranded motorists.· You can become a casualty as the result of a human relations problem left unsolved. 2.· But the base is about to become a casualty of the peace dividend.· They are also vulnerable to the stresses and strains of a larger cosmic struggle and can become casualties in the process.· But if you continue to dig in your heels over this then one friendship or involvement may become a casualty now.
· The bomb, which caused no casualties, had been planted in or under the luggage compartment of one of the buses.· Few details were released of the precise circumstances of the friendly fire incidents which caused the casualties.· Further shelling had caused casualties in the trench and had destroyed the parapet over a length of fifty yards.· The sheer mass of Snotlings can overwhelm or tie down an enemy unit even if the tiny creatures don't cause many casualties!· A full volley will rip through the toughest regiment causing immense casualties in the blink of an eye.· It was called mustard gas and was used at Ypres in 1917, when it caused many thousands of casualties.· The enemy have lost no time settling in and are now busy mortaring their former positions, causing the usual casualties.
· So successful was the tactic that the return fire from the Dragoons passed over their heads without inflicting a single casualty.· The precise reasoning behind the apparent intent to inflict fatalities and casualties among the civilian population in Britain is far from clear.
· The Abyssinians fought with outstanding courage but inflicted pathetically few casualties.
· By including bosses you will be improving your chances of inflicting casualties and reducing the number of casualties sustained.· Education in schools, colleges and youth projects to try and prevent young people from sniffing may help to reduce casualties.· For the latter, the aim is to reduce casualties by one third from 1981-85 levels by the year 2000.· Of course we helped to reduce road casualties by removing toads from the road for marking.· Working groups hope to reduce all road casualties by a third in the region by 2000.· Making travel safer will not necessarily reduce the number of casualties if there is a disproportionate increase in the amount of travel.· Remember - anything that reduces the casualty count will work in your favour because of your fixed rank bonus.· Reducing the amount of travel, however, without a change in accident risk will reduce the number of casualties.
· The computer-equipped force suffered self-inflicted casualties more than three times higher than those in previous exercises without computers.· As a result they suffered many casualties.· They're suffering greater casualties, but the outside world doesn't know.· Nevertheless, the Allies had suffered 252,000 casualties out of a total commitment of 480,000.· He said both sides had suffered heavy casualties.· He had suffered casualties - one man missing, presumed dead, another partially disabled.· But this time they suffered their heaviest casualties since the battle began.
· Expect to take casualties as you advance, especially Goblins.· Since the building had been empty when the charge went, the street people had taken the casualties.· The only problem with Snotties is that they take casualties fairly quickly.· Beirut was under constant shelling; the Marines at the airport were taking more casualties.· This means that Greatswords may take a lot of casualties before their turn comes.· We've taken some minor casualties of our own, but nothin' to worry about, they're all walkin' wounded.· A bigger unit can take more casualties before its combat worthiness is eroded.
Our aim is to reduce road casualties. civilian casualties (=people who are not soldiers who are injured or killed)cause/inflict casualties The rebels have inflicted heavy casualties.2[singular] someone or something that suffers as a result of a particular event or situationcasualty of The Safer City Project is the latest casualty of financial cutbacks.3[uncountable] (also Casualty) British English the part of a hospital that people are taken to when they are hurt in an accident or suddenly become ill SYN Emergency Room American Englishin casualty Jean ended up in casualty last night.