LOSSES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does losses mean? 

• LOSSES (noun)
  The noun LOSSES has 1 sense:

1. something lost (especially money lost at gambling)

  Familiarity information: LOSSES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOSSES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something lost (especially money lost at gambling)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

losings; losses

Hypernyms ("losses" is a kind of...):

financial loss (loss of money or decrease in financial value)

 Context examples 

Money or securities set aside to cover unexpected conditions or losses.

(Contingency Fund, NCI Thesaurus)

The study found that some members of the corn family are more susceptible than others to yield losses under high ozone air pollution.

(Study finds rising ozone a hidden threat to corn, National Science Foundation)

Being prepared can help reduce fear, anxiety, and losses.

(Chemical Emergencies, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

These losses are not usually severe.

(Conductive Hearing Loss, NCI Thesaurus)

However, if greenhouse gas emissions are cut significantly, ice losses would be reduced.

(New research shows an iceless Greenland may be in the future, National Science Foundation)

Model simulations of global atmospheric chemistry and the losses of CCl4 due to interactions with soil and the oceans pointed to an unidentified ongoing current source of CCl4.

(Ozone-depleting compound persists, NASA)

Most women know by the age of 40 how many children and pregnancy losses they have had, which is years before most heart attacks and strokes occur.

(Pregnancy losses and large numbers of children linked with increased risk of cardiovascular disease, University of Cambridge)

Being prepared can help reduce fear, anxiety and losses.

(Earthquakes, Federal Emergency Management Agency)

Crops with greater resistance to pathogens and insects could greatly reduce pesticide use and prevent billions of dollars in crop losses.

(Innovative Approach to Breeding Could Mean Higher Yields and Better Crops, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I know that he has had heavy card losses at Watier’s and White’s.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)