lossnoun
uk/lɒs/us/lɑːs/B2 [ C or U ] the fact that you no longer have something or have less of something:
Many parents feel a sense of loss when their children leave home.
He suffered a gradual loss of memory.
There will be substantial job losses if the factory closes down.
blood/hair/weight loss
C2 [ S ] a disadvantage caused by someone leaving or by something being taken away:
It would be a great loss to the department if you left.
B2 [ C or U ] the death of a person:
They never got over the loss of their son.
C1 [ C ] a situation in which a business spends more money than it earns:
The company announced a pre-tax loss of three million dollars.
loss of life
an occasion when a number of people die:
The plane crashed with serious loss of life.
More examples
- Both viruses cause fever and loss of appetite.
- Her death is a grievous loss to the whole of the community.
- The bomb explosion resulted in a tragic loss of life.
- The club does not accept responsibility for loss of or damage to club members' personal property.
- Naturally we want to see as few job losses in the industry as possible.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Losing and loss
- astray
- black hole
- disappear
- escape
- forfeit
- get to
- haemorrhage
- kiss
- lose
- lose your way idiom
- lost
- mislay
- misplace
- miss
- say
- slip away
- slip through sb's fingers idiom
- walkabout
- wave
- wave/say goodbye to sth idiom
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Advantage and disadvantage
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Accounting
Profits & losses
Idiom(s)
be at a loss
one man's loss is another man's gain