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According to Eric Hagt, director of the China Program at the World Security Institute, North Korea is setting the US up for what could best be described as a lose-lose scenario.

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  1. transitive verb To be unsuccessful in retaining possession of; mislay: He's always losing his car keys.
  2. transitive verb To be deprived of (something one has had): lost her art collection in the fire; lost her job.
  3. transitive verb To be left alone or desolate because of the death of: lost his wife.
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  • What might seem like a lose-lose situation is actually not. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • It was almost like a lose-lose situation: if I went there and I had a great showing and I destroyed everybody there, then it's kind of like, 'He's supposed to do that.' —  JSOnline.com
  • SERENA WILLIAMS: If I'm not playing well I watch the ones that I lose, which is complete torture. —  Tennis-X.com :: Xtreme Tennis News
  • Take our 4-Minute Personality Test and read your Free car quality c32 trailer never used open title d rings stake pockets built in ramps both goose neck and fith wheel 14 k photos avaliable on request i paid over 5500 for this trailer a cpl of months ago my lose is your gain Hankook hp401 snow tires …. —  Auto and Automotive Classified Listings Online - Sell and Buy Cars and Trucks
  • According to Eric Hagt, director of the China Program at the World Security Institute, North Korea is setting the US up for what could best be described as a lose-lose scenario. —  Asia Times Online
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English losen, from Old English losian, to perish, from los, loss; see leu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also loose (more or loss confused with loose, untie, relax); partly from Middle English losien, from Anglo-Saxon losian, become loose, escape, also lose, from los, a loss (see loss); but chiefly a variant of lesen (later English leese) (preterit les, plural lore, past participle loren, lorn), lose: see leese, from Anglo-Saxon leósan (preterit leás, plural luron, past participle loren), in comp. forleósan. For the change of Anglo-Saxon eó to English o (oo), pronounced ö, cf. choose, from Anglo-Saxon céosan.
  2. from lose, v. Cf. loss.
  3. Middle English, also los, loos, from Anglo-French loos, Old French los = Provencal laus, from Latin laus (plural laudes), praise: see laud.
  4. Middle English losen, from lose, n.
 

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