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# losses

«losses» in Mova's school dictionary: **soldiers or people killed (and sometimes wounded) in war…** — 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

phrase (noun, plural: losses; singular a loss)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (euphemism, official) soldiers or people killed (and sometimes wounded) in war or a disaster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/losses/#m1)

2) money a business loses; the opposite of profits. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/losses/#m2)

3) (literal) games lost, or things lost. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/losses/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Military reports and the news use it to talk about deaths in war without saying «killed». In business and sport, it is a normal word. Register: official, news; all regions.

### examples

- News: The army suffered heavy losses in the battle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/losses/#x1)
- The town counted its losses after the flood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/losses/#x2)
- The company made losses of two million pounds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/losses/#x3)
- The team has three wins and two losses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/losses/#x4)
- Maths: If income is £500 and costs are £700, the loss is £200. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/losses/#x5)
- Chat: «heavy losses» in war news = lots of soldiers died [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/losses/#x6)
- He had heavy losses in business, and several times some affairs went wrong with his neighbors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/losses/#x7)

### note

In war news it often means deaths; in business it means money; in sport it means games lost. In maths, a loss is a negative result: costs minus income. Plain words (war): people killed.

### In the corpora

- [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/)
- ["Losses" in war reports means soldiers killed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/26-war-and-the-military/11/)
- [Priya dropped a rank after five losses and decided to play until she won it back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/7/)
- [Playing on while upset to win a rank back usually leads to more losses.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/30/)
- [The Bible says Christians should «mourn with those who mourn», even for small losses.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/55-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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