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# loss

«loss» in Mova's school dictionary: **when you lose something or someone, or have less of it** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a loss, losses; loss — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Loss is when you lose something or someone, or have less of it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loss/#m1)

2) A loss is when a team does not win a game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loss/#m2)

3) In money, a loss is when you spend more than you get back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loss/#m3)

4) A loss is the death of someone, and the sadness that comes with it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loss/#m4)

5) To be at a loss means you do not know what to do or say. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loss/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In maths and money lessons a loss means you got less money back than you paid (profit is the opposite). In sport it is a defeat. In feelings lessons loss means grief. Phrases: «at a loss» (not knowing what to do), «weight loss», «hearing loss», «a loss of», «make a loss».

### examples

- Our team had a loss last weekend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loss/#x1)
- The shop made a loss this year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loss/#x2)
- The loss of her pet made her very sad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loss/#x3)
- Loud music can cause hearing loss. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loss/#x4)
- I was at a loss for words. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loss/#x5)
- We are sorry for your loss. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loss/#x6)
- The storm caused a loss of power. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loss/#x7)

### note

Countable or uncountable. Double s. Trap: «loss» (noun) vs «lose» (verb) vs «loose» (not tight). Maths: loss = cost price − selling price (buy for £10, sell for £7: loss of £3).

### In the corpora

- [Dams on rivers, roads, new buildings and the loss of resting places along the way all make migration harder today.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/54-migration-the-great-journeys/17/)
- [Bees have disappeared from some places because of pesticides (sprays that kill insects), illness and the loss of flowers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/13/)
- [Sadly, more than a quarter of parrot kinds are threatened, mainly by forest loss and by people catching them as pets.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/303-parrots-of-the-world-macaws-cockatoos-african-greys-lorikeets-and-the-cheeky-kea/7/)
- [Banks and companies use dry, technical words so that debt and job losses sound like ordinary paperwork.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/0/)
- [Ask what the plain word would be: a fee, a bug, a loss, a tax, a lie.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «loss» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loss/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.