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English
Etymology 1
From Middle English los, from Old English los (“damage, destruction, loss”), from Proto-West Germanic *los, 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.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /lɒs/
- (General American) IPA(key): /lɔs/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /lɑs/
Audio (US): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɒs, -ɔːs
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.
- (uncountable) The destruction or ruin of an object.
- (countable) Something that has been destroyed or ruined.
- It was a terrible crash; both cars were total losses.
- (countable) Defeat; an instance of being defeated.
- (countable) The death of a person or animal.
- We mourn his loss.
- The battle was won, but losses were great.
- (uncountable) The condition of grief caused by losing someone or something, especially someone who has died.
- Her daughter's sense of loss eventually led to depression.
- (financial, countable) The sum an entity loses on balance.
- Antonym: profit
- The sum of expenditures and taxes minus total income is a loss, when this difference is positive.
- (engineering) Electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work.
- The inefficiency of many old-fashioned power plants exceeds 60% loss before the subsequent losses during transport over the grid.
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
- at a loss
- at a loss for words
- blood loss, bloodloss
- bone loss
- capital loss
- core loss
- dead loss
- deadweight loss
- for a loss
- for the loss
- generation loss
- habitat loss
- hair loss
- headloss
- head loss
- hearing loss
- hull loss
- instant loss 2koma
- lossage
- loss and damage
- loss and gain are brothers twain
- loss condition
- lossful
- loss function
- loss leader
- lossless
- lossmaker, loss-maker
- loss-making
- loss of consortium
- loss of face
- loss of life
- loss of supply
- loss prevention
- lossproof
- loss ratio
- lossy
- net loss
- net operating loss
- one man's loss is another man's gain
- operating loss
- packet loss
- path loss
- pregnancy loss
- profit and loss
- profit and loss statement
- sightloss
- stop-loss
- stop loss
- stop-loss order
- stop loss order
- tackle for loss
- total loss
- vision loss
- wake loss
- weight loss
- without loss of generality
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Translations
the result of no longer possessing something
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destruction or ruin of an object
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something destroyed
defeat — see also defeat
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the death of a person or animal
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grief caused by losing someone or something
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financial: the sum lost on balance
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engineering: power expended without doing useful work
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Etymology 2
Pronunciation spelling of lost, representing African-American Vernacular English.
Verb
loss
- (colloquial) Alternative spelling of lost.
Anagrams
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Estonian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Schloss, from Middle High German slōz, from Old High German sloz.
Pronunciation
Noun
loss (genitive lossi, partitive lossi)
Declension
Further reading
- “loss”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
- “loss”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “loss”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
- loss in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
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Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
loss
- imperative of losse
Swedish
Etymology
From Low German los (“free, loose”), from Middle Low German lōs, from Old Saxon lōs, from Proto-West Germanic *laus.
See also Danish los and Norwegian loss, Dutch loos. Doublet of lös.
Adverb
loss (not comparable)
- to a no longer attached or stuck state (no longer stuck to something, generally); loose, off, untied
- Han drog i den, och till slut kom den loss
- He pulled on it, and finally it came loose
- Han sparkade loss grenen
- He kicked the branch off
- Jag är fast i kvicksand och kommer inte loss
- I'm stuck in quicksand and can't get out (get unstuck)
- De knöt loss båten
- They untied the boat (from the pier)
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