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: a loss in marine insurance in which the cost of repairing or recovering a ship or its cargo would be more than the ship or cargo is worth compare actual total loss in this entry — direct loss : a loss arising directly from an act or event compare consequential loss in this entry
LOSS definition: 1. the fact that you no longer have something or have less of something: 2. a disadvantage caused…. Learn more.
Loss definition: detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get. See examples of LOSS used in a sentence.
Loss is the fact of no longer having something or of having less of it than before.
Synonyms for LOSS: absence, lack, misplacement, deprivation, mislaying, forfeiture, sacrifice, forfeit; Antonyms of LOSS: gain, acquisition, control, hands, possession, having, keeping, winner.
If you no longer have something, you experience a loss, like the loss of a favorite sock. When something lessens, or gets smaller, that's also a loss, as in weight loss. Loss has lots of opposites that help define what it means. It is the opposite of win, gain, found, or earn.
Definition of loss noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
the fact of not having someone or something that you had before, or of having less of something than before: loss of income / memory. blood / hair / weight loss. job losses. Fewer examples. the closure of the factory and the loss of 400 jobs. He was recompensed for loss of earnings.
loss. noun. /lɔs/. [uncountable, countable, usually singular] the state of no longer having something or as much of something; the process that leads to this I want to report the loss of a package. loss of blood weight loss The closure of the factory will lead to a number of job losses.
loss meaning, definition, what is loss: the fact of no longer having something, ...: Learn more.
