casualty

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The real casualty is American Capitalism and the American Economy, which will get not one nickel of benefit from this.

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  1. noun An accident, especially one involving serious injury or loss of life.
  2. noun One injured or killed in an accident: a train wreck with many casualties.
  3. noun One injured, killed, captured, or missing in action through engagement with an enemy. Often used in the plural: Battlefield casualties were high.
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  • Sounds like another major-label casualty, though Universal Motown cleaned up its act right around this time. —  Idolator: Music News, Reviews, And Gossip
  • The leak has already claimed at least one casualty -- a US entertainment columnist who was fired for reviewing a stolen copy downloaded from the Internet.
  • Another casualty was Newcastle Production, which makes and distributes all Findus products. —  Home | Mail Online
  • Each casualty is a loss to be mourned; still, the fact that the casualty figure has declined by roughly 20\% per month while our troops have been most active and engaged is clearly an encouraging sign. —  Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
  • He might think I'm so neurotic that I normally take my asymptomatic baby straight to casualty, and the only reason I haven't today is because of the snow. —  Life and style | guardian.co.uk
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injury ·  disaster ·  hazard ·  personnel ·  accident ·  exposure ·  emergency ·  illness ·  loss ·  asset ·  wound ·  hardship

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casualty:   casualties
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  1. Middle English casuelte, from Old French, from Medieval Latin cāsuālitās, chance, accident, from Latin cāsuālis, fortuitous; see casual.

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  1. from Middle English casuelte, from Old French *casuelte, French casualité = Spanish casualidad = Portuguese casualidade = Italian casualità, from Middle Latin casualitas (-tat-), from Late Latin casualis, of chance, casual: see casual.
 

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/ˈkæʒjuəlti/
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