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I would cry after losses when I was a kid and pout. But I played like that.
Jon Beason

Meaning of "losses" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LOSSES

losses  [ˈlɒsɪz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LOSSES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Losses is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LOSSES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Loss

Loss may refer to: ▪ A negative difference between retail price and cost of production ▪ Loss leader a deliberate commercial loss made in the expectation of recouping it by profitable sales of other lines ▪ An event in which the team or individual in question did not win ▪ Loss, a pitching statistic in baseball ▪ Attenuation, a reduction in amplitude and intensity of a signal ▪ In telecommunications, loss is a decrease in signal in a communications system: ▪ Angular misalignment loss, power loss caused by the deviation from optimum angular alignment ▪ Bridging loss, the loss that results when an impedance is connected across a transmission line ▪ Coupling loss, the loss that occurs when energy is transferred from one circuit, optical device, or medium to another ▪ Insertion loss, the decrease in transmitted signal power resulting from the insertion of a device in a transmission line or optical fiber ▪ Path loss, the attenuation undergone by an...

Definition of losses in the English dictionary

The definition of losses in the dictionary is military personnel lost by death or capture.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LOSSES


advances
ədˈvɑːnsɪz
consequences
ˈkɒnsɪkwənsɪz
courses
ˈkɔːsɪz
currencies
ˈkʌrənsɪz
expenses
ɪkˈspɛnsɪz
finances
ˈfaɪnænsɪz
Forces
ˈfɔːsɪz
glasses
ˈɡlɑːsɪz
glossies
ˈɡlɒsɪz
horses
ˈhɔːsɪz
human-resources
ˌhjuːmənrɪˈzɔːsɪz
masses
ˈmæsɪz
Mrs
ˈmɪsɪz
pieces
ˈpiːsɪz
policies
ˈpɒlɪsɪz
premises
ˈprɛmɪsɪz
races
ˈreɪsɪz
resources
rɪˈzɔːsɪz
services
ˈsɜːvɪsɪz
sunglasses
ˈsʌnˌɡlɑːsɪz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LOSSES

losing
losing battle
losing streak
losingly
losings
loslyf
loss
loss adjuster
loss leader
loss ratio
lossless
lossmaker
lossmaking
lossy
lost
lost and found
lost cause
Lost Generation
lost property
lost property office

WORDS THAT END LIKE LOSSES

aviator glasses
busses
classes
compasses
cut one´s losses
excesses
eyeglasses
gambling losses
gasses
molasses
non-prosses
noughts and crosses
opera glasses
pair of compasses
prescription glasses
reading glasses
recesses
shipping losses
the masses
Ulysses

Synonyms and antonyms of losses in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «LOSSES»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «losses» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of losses

Translation of «losses» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LOSSES

Find out the translation of losses to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of losses from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «losses» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

损失
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pérdidas
570 millions of speakers

English

losses
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नुकसान
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

خسائر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

потери
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

perdas
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

লোকসান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pertes
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kerugian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Verluste
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

損失
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

손실
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Losses
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thiệt hại
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இழப்புகள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नुकसान
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kayıplar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

perdite
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

straty
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

втрати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pierderi
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απώλειες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verliese
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förluster
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tap
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of losses

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LOSSES»

The term «losses» is very widely used and occupies the 9.354 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LOSSES» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «losses» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «losses» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about losses

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10 QUOTES WITH «LOSSES»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word losses.
1
Joseph Addison
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
2
Isabel Allende
My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.
3
Brian Baumgartner
It was really tough as a kid going to a Braves game. It was a guaranteed loss. You're looking at 100 losses a year. I was a huge baseball fan, played it for quite a while. But when '91 happened, with Smoltz and Glavine, it turned around, and I will say it made it pretty sweet.
4
Jon Beason
I would cry after losses when I was a kid and pout. But I played like that.
5
Martha Beck
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
6
A. C. Benson
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
7
Alex Berenson
Equity is the cushion that protects financial institutions from unexpected changes in the value of their assets. The greater the leverage, the smaller the losses required to wipe out a company's equity, leaving it without enough money to repay the people who hold its debt.
8
Maeve Binchy
We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
9
John Bright
Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war.
10
Josh Brolin
You have to be okay with wins and losses. You can't just be looking for the wins and, when the losses happen, you can't buy more and more because you're sure it's going to bounce. We call that revenge trading.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LOSSES»

Discover the use of losses in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to losses and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and ...
In Necessary Losses, Judith Viorst turns her considerable talents to a serious and far-reaching subject: how we grow and change through the losses that are a certain and necessary part of life.
Judith Viorst, 2010
2
All Our Losses, All Our Griefs: Resources for Pastoral Care
Grief as a lifelong human experience is the scope of this absorbing book.
Kenneth R. Mitchell, 1983
3
Recovering from Losses in Life
Whether you've gone through a great tragedy or are just trying to deal with the small sorrows in life, this book can help you resist the pull toward despair and start on the road back to joy.
H. Norman Wright, 2006
4
Natural Disaster Risk Management and Financing Disaster ...
The main objective of the book is to establish a platform to provide information on the costs caused by disasters and the costs and benefits of disaster risk management focusing on ex-ante risk financing measures taken governments in ...
Reinhard Mechler, 2004
5
Losses in Water Distribution Networks: A Practitioner's ...
This is a best practice manual for addressing wate
Malcolm Farley, Stuart Trow, 2003
6
Vietnam air losses: United States Air Force, Navy and Marine ...
This book is a most thorough and detailed review of all the fixed wing losses suffered by the USAF, USN and USMC over a 12-year period.
Chris Hobson, 2001
7
Devastating Losses: How Parents Cope with the Death of a ...
Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD. Editor, Death Studies. This volume is a pioneering and long overdue work, a study not only of grieving parents who lost a child to suicide but also of parents whose children succumbed to drug overdoses.
John R. Jordan, 2012
8
Shaping Losses: Cultural Memory and the Holocaust
Taking the example of the decimation of European Jewry during the Nazi era, Shaping Losses confronts the problem of transforming trauma into cultural memory.This eloquent volume examines how memoirs, films, photographs, art, and literature, ...
Julia Epstein, Lori Hope Lefkovitz, 2001
9
Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the Twentieth Century
A comprehensive reference work compiled by Moscow historians, this book contains data on the subject from the 1918 Civil War to Afghanistan.
G. F. Krivosheev, 1997
10
Counting Our Losses: Reflecting on Change, Loss, and ...
This text is a valuable resource for clinicians who work with clients dealing with non-death, nonfinite, and ambiguous losses in their lives.
Darcy L. Harris, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LOSSES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term losses is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Prestwick Airport taxpayer losses increase to £4 million - Telegraph
SNP ministers are under increasing pressure to justify their decision to buy Prestwick Airport after its taxpayer-funded losses increased to more ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
Commodity Losses Deepen as Gold and Oil Fall - Bloomberg …
The rout is deepening in commodities as traders sell off everything from oil to tin to sugar and gold. Bloomberg's Dan Petrie reports on “First ... «Bloomberg, Jul 15»
3
Travelzoo Q2 2015 Earnings: Recovery Set In Motion Though …
Though Travelzoo is recovering its performance, the losses continue due to the transitioning phase of its products and due to the expenses ... «Forbes, Jul 15»
4
U.S. Steel Canada's losses continue to mount - Hamilton Spectator
It's not a pretty picture from either viewpoint as the company continues to pile up losses because of general weakness in the steel market. «Hamilton Spectator, Jul 15»
5
National Bank of Greece Creditors Offer Funds to Prevent Losses
A group of senior creditors to National Bank of Greece SA said they'll consider recapitalizing the troubled lender to avoid incurring losses on ... «Bloomberg, Jul 15»
6
Oil Falls Below $50 as Gold Holds Losses; Most Asia Stocks Climb …
U.S. oil fell below $50 a barrel and gold traded near a five-year low after a selloff that's seen commodities slide to the lowest in 13 years. «Bloomberg, Jul 15»
7
Brent Holds Losses Amid Signs Iran May Exacerbate Global Surplus …
Brent held losses near a two-week low on signs a global glut that drove prices lower will persist and amid a broader rout in commodities. «Bloomberg, Jul 15»
8
Australian shares inch higher as commodity losses offset broader …
The Australian share market is posting a modest rise in relatively thin trade as broader gains offset solid declines for commodity producers. «ABC Online, Jul 15»
9
Greek banks reopen; gold extends recent losses - CNBC.com
Squawk Box Live this morning gave you analysis on Greece, where banks reopened Monday after a three-week shutdown. Over the weekend ... «CNBC, Jul 15»
10
Commodity Losses Deepen on Lowest Close Since 2002 as Gold …
The rout in commodities deepened, with prices settling at the lowest since 2002 as the prospect of higher U.S. interest rates sent gold tumbling. «Bloomberg, Jul 15»

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