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loss
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English los, from Old English los (“damage, destruction, loss”), from Proto-Germanic *lus? (“dissolution, break-up, loss”), from Proto-Indo-European *lews- (“to cut, sunder, separate, loose, lose”). Cognate with Icelandic los (“dissolution, looseness, break-up”), Old English lor, forlor (“loss, ruin”), Middle High German verlor (“loss, ruin”). More at lose.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /l?s/
- (General American) IPA(key): /l?s/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /l?s/
- Rhymes: -?s, -??s
Noun
loss (countable and uncountable, plural losses)
- (countable) The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement.
- Antonym: gain
- (uncountable) The destruction or ruin of an object.
- (countable) Something that has been destroyed or ruined.
- (countable) Defeat; an instance of being defeated.
- Antonyms: win, victory
- (countable) The death of a person or animal.
- (uncountable) The condition of grief caused by losing someone or something, especially someone who has died.
- (financial, countable) The sum an entity loses on balance.
- Antonym: profit
- (engineering) Electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work.
Usage notes
- The possessive of loss is often constructed as loss of rather than 's loss.
- loss is often the subject of the verbs make or take. See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take
Derived terms
Related terms
- lose
Translations
Etymology 2
Pronunciation spelling of lost, representing African-American Vernacular English.
Verb
loss
- (colloquial) Alternative spelling of lost
Anagrams
- SOLs, Sols, sols
Estonian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Schloss.
Noun
loss (genitive lossi, partitive lossi)
- castle
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
loss
- imperative of losse
Swedish
Etymology
Like Danish los and Norwegian loss, from Low German or Dutch los, from Middle Low German respectively Middle Dutch los, sidoform of Low German l?s respectively Dutch loos, cognate with Swedish lös.
Adjective
loss
- (indeclinable, predicatively, adverbially) loose, untied, off
Anagrams
- sols
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reinsurance
English
Etymology
re- +? insurance
Noun
reinsurance (countable and uncountable, plural reinsurances)
- (business, insurance) Insurance purchased by insurance companies that spreads the risk associated with selling insurance around so the danger of one large monetary loss is minimized.
Translations
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