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Defenition of the word loss

    • Defenition of the word loss

      • The result of a business operation where overhead costs are greater than the receipts or income. (Source: ISEP / ODE)
      • The act of being defeated and losing something, such as a match.
      • the act of losing; "everyone expected him to win so his loss was a shock"
      • the experience of losing a loved one; "he sympathized on the loss of their grandfather"
      • the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue; "the company operated at a loss last year"
      • something that is lost; "the car was a total loss"; "loss of livestock left the rancher bankrupt"
      • decline in activity: "a serious loss of business"
      • the disadvantage that results from losing something; "his loss of credibility led to his resignation" or "losing him is no great deprivation"
      • euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing"
      • military personnel lost by death or capture
      • the disadvantage that results from losing something; "his loss of credibility led to his resignation"; "losing him is no great deprivation"
      • the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue; "the company operated at a loss last year"; "the company operated in the red last year"
      • gradual decline in amount or activity; "weight loss"; "a serious loss of business"
      • the act of losing someone or something
      • the disadvantage that results from losing something
      • the experience of losing a loved one
      • euphemistic expressions for death
      • the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue
      • something that is lost
      • gradual decline in amount or activity

    Synonyms for the word loss

      • beating
      • bereavement
      • cost
      • damage
      • death
      • debit
      • defeat
      • deficiency
      • deficit
      • demise
      • departure
      • deprivation
      • exit
      • expiration
      • failure
      • going
      • hammering
      • harm
      • hurt
      • injury
      • passing
      • passing away
      • pasting
      • personnel casualty
      • release
      • shortfall
      • slaughter
      • thrashing
      • trouncing

    Similar words in the loss

      • loss
      • loss's

    Hyponyms for the word loss

      • capitulation
      • combat injury
      • default
      • epilation
      • fall
      • financial loss
      • forfeit
      • forfeiture
      • injury
      • paper loss
      • reducing
      • sacrifice
      • squeeze
      • surrender
      • wastage
      • wound

    Hypernyms for the word loss

      • amount
      • amount of money
      • casualty
      • death
      • decease
      • decline
      • diminution
      • disadvantage
      • experience
      • expiry
      • failure
      • sum
      • sum of money
      • transferred possession
      • transferred property

    Antonyms for the word loss

      • gain

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