Definition of Loss

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Definition of Loss

Loss

The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as, the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation.

The state of losing or having lost; the privation, defect, misfortune, harm, etc., which ensues from losing.

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.

The state of being lost or destroyed; especially, the wreck or foundering of a ship or other vessel.

Failure to gain or win; as, loss of a race or battle.

Failure to use advantageously; as, loss of time.

Killed, wounded, and captured persons, or captured property.

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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Loss Quotations

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
Marilyn Monroe

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.
Winston Churchill

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
William Shakespeare

If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
Jack Welch

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Voltaire

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
Niccolo Machiavelli

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James Madison

Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James Madison

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
James Madison

Loss Translations

loss in Afrikaans is verlies
loss in Danish is tab
loss in Dutch is nadeel, deficit, schade, strop
loss in German is verlieren, Verlust {m}, Ausfall {m}
loss in Italian is perdita, perdita
loss in Latin is detrimentum, perditio, amissio, damnum
loss in Norwegian is tap, savn
loss in Portuguese is perda

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