Casualty

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  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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. Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion.
  • noun. A ward in a hospital devoted to the treatment of injuries received by accident.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Chance nature; randomness.
  • noun. Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster.
  • noun. A person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence.
  • noun. The accident and emergency department of a hospital
  • 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
  • Word Usage
    "Another casualty is the entertainment district along Jackson Street, Jensen's plan for an eight-block stretch of nightclubs, restaurants and other attractions."