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Definition of Loss
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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. Related Definitions:
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Loss Quotations
Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam. Winston Churchill We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it. James M. Barrie Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us. Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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 |
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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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