Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An accident, especially one involving serious injury or loss of life.
- noun One who is injured or killed in an accident.
- noun One who is injured, killed, captured, or missing in action through engagement with an enemy:
- noun One that is harmed or eliminated as a result of an action or circumstance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun plural In the military service, the losses in a command due to any cause whatsoever, as resignation, discharge, dismissal, desertion, capture, wounds, or death.
- noun Chance, or what happens by chance; accident; contingency.
- noun An unfortunate chance or accident, especially one resulting in bodily injury or death; specifically, disability or loss of life in battle or military service from wounds, etc.: as, the casualties were very numerous.
- noun In Scots law, an emolument due from a vassal to his superior, beyond the stated yearly duties, upon certain casual events.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency.
- noun Any injury of the body from accident; hence, death, or other misfortune, occasioned by an accident.
- noun (Mil. & Naval) Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion.
- noun A ward in a hospital devoted to the treatment of injuries received by accident.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
Chance nature;randomness . - noun Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an
accident , adisaster . - noun A person suffering from
injuries or who has beenkilled due to anaccident or through an act of violence. - noun UK The
accident andemergency department of ahospital
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone injured or killed in an accident
- noun an accident that causes someone to die
- noun someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement
- noun a decrease of military personnel or equipment
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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As it takes me a week to read your average manuscript, and up to two weeks to read your average 600-page fantasy tome? and this when Iâ⠂ ¬â „ ¢m not beset by administrative busywork? the casualty is my ability to read outside my own submission pil
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Another casualty is the entertainment district along Jackson Street, Jensen's plan for an eight-block stretch of nightclubs, restaurants and other attractions.
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With Thomas Vermaelen a long-term casualty with a mystery achilles problem, Wenger has started Djourou in all five of the club's fixtures since New Year's Day and the Swiss looked tired and below par in the fifth – the 3-0 victory at West Ham United on Saturday.
Arsène Wenger set to rest Johan Djourou for Arsenal's replay at Leeds 2011
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All the same here: very calm in casualty and custody prior to midnight.
It’s New Years Eve and I promise to do my best. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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When the first casualty is the truth, there can be no victor
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The luckless Sandro tore a calf muscle and, according to Redknapp, will be a long-term casualty, and William Gallas damaged the same muscle and "didn't look very good".
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The most immediate casualty is Jack Lew, Obama's choice for OMB director.
The Senate becomes a little more broken Ezra Klein 2010
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BAGHDAD — As Iraqi politicians wrangle through a seventh month of government-formation talks, an unexpected casualty is emerging: Iranian influence over the country's fractured Shiite groups.
Baghdad Wrangling Rattles Iran Ties Sam Dagher 2010
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To the person on the street, that casualty is going to be like the final casualty of their war.
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He was driven off with his head strapped to a gurney, with the most serious casualty from a 3-hour, 35-minute contest that delayed was delayed several times by injury timeouts.
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nheiges commented on the word casualty
por casualidad in Spanish is "by chance."
July 4, 2007