loss

Meaning

1. The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement.
2. The destruction or ruin of an object.
3. Something that has been destroyed or ruined.
4. Defeat; an instance of being defeated.
5. The death of a person or animal.
6. The condition of grief caused by losing someone or something, especially someone who has died.
7. The sum an entity loses on balance.
8. Electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work.

damage

negative profit

fee commission

lose money

discomfiture

personnel casualty

transmission loss

waterloo

complete defeat

be extinct

losing in business

losing one’s capital

being deprived

great fall

act of losing

to the bad

make a loss

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/lɒs/

From Middle English los, from Old English los (“damage, destruction, loss”), from Proto-Germanic *lusą (“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.

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