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Loss

noun

Something that is lost. "Loss of livestock left the rancher bankrupt"

Gradual decline in amount or activity. "A serious loss of business"

The act of losing someone or something.

The disadvantage that results from losing something. Synonym: deprivation. "Losing him is no great deprivation"

The experience of losing a loved one.

The amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue. Synonyms: red, red ink. "The company operated in the red last year"

Military personnel lost by death or capture. Synonym: personnel casualty.

Euphemistic expressions for death. Synonyms: departure, exit, expiration, going, passing, release.

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"Loss" Quotes from Famous Books

... that country seen across How many a league of love and loss, Prayed for and longed for, and as far As fountains ...

— Poems of To-Day: an Anthology • Various

... few days after the raid on John Mackenzie's flock. He had come over on hearing of it from Dad Frazer, who had gone to take charge of another band. Tim was out of humor over the loss, small as it was out of the thousands he numbered in his flocks. He concealed his feelings as well as he could under a friendly face, but his words were hard, the accusation and rebuke ...

— The Flockmaster of Poison Creek • George W. Ogden

... money preparing men to kill each other than we do in teaching them to live. We spend more money building one battleship than in the annual maintenance of all our state universities. The financial loss resulting from destroying one another's homes in the civil war would have built 15,000,000 houses, each costing $2,000. We pray for love but prepare for hate. We preach ...

— The Art of Public Speaking • Dale Carnagey (AKA Dale Carnegie) and J. Berg Esenwein

... own studies, passed away. After that I seemed dimly to recall a period of extreme loneliness when I was left in charge of a private instructor, while my father, as I later learned, bewildered by his great loss, and temporarily driven into a sort of madness, wandered in an aimless track of travel over the ...

— The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars • L. P. Gratacap

... conclusion of any undertaking, it is usual to compute the loss and profit. As I shall soon cease to write Adventurers, I could not forbear lately to consider what has been the consequence of my labours; and whether I am to reckon the hours laid out in these compositions, as applied to a good and laudable purpose, ...

— The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes - Volume IV: The Adventurer; The Idler • Samuel Johnson

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