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losses

losses \losses\ n. something lost, especially money lost at gambling. Inverse of winnings.

Syn: losings.

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losses

n. (plural of loss English)

WordNet
losses

n. something lost (especially money lost at gambling) [syn: losings] [ant: winnings]

Usage examples of "losses".

The other problem is that the Guild is not attracting enough new recruits to make up for those losses - She felt both anger at him and a stirring of terror.

Her life made sense to her, not as a tragic series of losses, but as challenges met, changes endured and even enjoyed.

So far, the Seti commanders had assumed that the losses were, in fact, due to passive defense systems that had escaped inactivation.

Our losses are still heavy in every encounter, as it is difficult to best an enemy with armaments similar to your own.

With their consistent losses in this area of the Great Starry Wheel, you'd think the Mil would have left us alone long ago.

Then I remembered that the Mil in space would wreak terrible losses, so they could be arrogant about our puny trap.

But we'll demonstrate substantial losses far beyond accounts receivable for the products, and all they can do is accept what we offer.

For all his age and apparent physical losses, he was still amazingly fit.

But she had the grace to mourn her friends' losses, of both their existing children and their hope of more.

Such punitive losses had naturally used up tremendous materiel as well as 'dinis whose genes should be perpetuated.

Working the new claim, she had quickly recouped her losses on the Optherian contract.

Zainal was relieved not to see Kapash again but he would have liked to have been an insect on the wall when Kapash discovered that he would be responsible for reimbursing the merchants (perhaps with the coffee beans he now owned) for their losses from the bur-glaries of their supposedly safe lockups.

There were few family groups in the Fort Hold that had not suffered losses in the debilitating fever that had hit the already distressed colonists.

Capiam pulled himself up, calculating Igen's crushing losses and the numbers of its sick riders.

Despite their cruel losses, they rise, as always, to defend the continent .