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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Business basicslossloss /lɒs $ lɒːs/●くろまる●くろまる●くろまるS2W1 noun1[countable, uncountable]LOSE/NOT HAVE ANYMORE the fact of no longer having something, or of having less of it than you used to have, or the process by which this happensloss ofThe court awarded Ms Dixon 7,000ドル for damages and loss of earnings.a disease which causes fever and a loss of appetiteThis did not explain his apparent loss of interest in his wife.her loss of confidence in herselfa certain feeling of loss of controla temporary loss of memoryThe animal was weak through loss of blood.The company is closing down two of its factories, leading to 430 job losses.Weight loss should be gradual.a type of hearing loss that affects language development2[countable, uncountable]BBMONEY if a business makes a loss, it spends more than it earnsThe company made a loss of 250,000ドル last year.The magazine’s losses totaled almost 5ドル million.profit and lossrun/operate etc at a loss (=to earn less money from something you sell than it costs you to produce it)Two of the mines are running at a loss.a loss-making rural railway3[countable, uncountable]DIE the death of someoneloss ofShe must be feeling very lonely after the loss of her husband.I’m sorry to hear of your family’s sad loss (=the death of someone you love).US forces withdrew after suffering heavy losses (=many deaths).The war has led to a tragic loss of life.4 →be at a loss5[uncountable]FEEL HAPPY/FRIGHTENED/BORED ETC a feeling of being sad or lonely because someone or something is not there anymorethe deep sense of loss I felt after my divorce6[singular]DISADVANTAGE a disadvantage caused by someone or something leaving or being removedloss toWe see your going as a great loss to the company.7 →that’s/it’s somebody’s loss →cut your losses, → a dead loss1(10)Examples from the Corpusloss• It announced a loss of 2ドル.8m, on a turnover of 13ドル.5m, thanks mainly to write-downs in the depressedpropertymarket.• Trying the case, even to a loss, would help the Republicans, and Starr is a Republican.• The company cannot acceptliability for loss or damage to a passenger's property.• three wins and four losses• The girlcompensates for her loss by maintainingconnectedness with others.• About 35,000 job losses are expected.• Earlier AltaVista, the searchengineportal, reportedlosses of $ 307m on revenues of $ 98m in the second quarter.• How does sleeplossaffect the soldier?• I was sorry to hear about the loss of your mother.• You should report the loss of your passport to the consulate.• For instance, while braincells do die and are not replaced, their loss is not an explanation for senility.• Weightloss should be gradual.loss of• The company reported losses of 82ドル million for the third quarter.• the loss ofinnocencemade a loss• Celltech made a loss of 1ドル.9 million last year, much of which went on setting up new researchprojects.• I made a loss but Bertra Muscle became a rupeemillionaire.• According to its figures, the industrymade a loss of Aus13ドル.2 million on hardwoodoperations in 1990/91.• But a quarter of all businesses surveyed still made a loss.• Table 1 gives some more detail, in this we exclude all subjects who made losses in excess of 10ドル.sad loss• On the way back to the rendezvous the next morning, however, they suffered a sad loss.• For Doctor Who this was a sad loss.• Waterpolo suffered another sad loss last week with the sudden death of Donegall's Eddie Neill.sense of loss• But after a sighting there is also a sense of loss, anti you must stand bereft, searching the emptysky.• Loveless is at her most touching, expressing a sense of loss while maintaining an optimism about the future.• I can't help feeling a sense of loss and betrayal.• More than the economic backwardness and resentment at being made into the nationalsymbol of anti-communist resistance is a sense of loss.• She looked at the man sitting opposite her, and was suffused with a sense of loss.• He looks back on his youth with an overwhelmingsense of loss.• No one stands out, although some emerge from the group in briefsolos to express their personalsense of loss.• What makes them interesting is that they keep going in spite of their terror and their sense of loss.• Religiousbeliefs help some people to make ultimatesense of loss and death.great loss• This is a great loss, because at root there is an integralrelation between the ideas of crime and morality.• He was a great loss to the police.• It was a great loss to me because I was very close to him, and he was a great human being.• Such a war, Cuevas predicted, would bring uselesssacrifices and greater losses in territory.• Numerically, even greater loss is suffered by the new-born generations.• He was, indeed, no great loss.• That was no great loss, either.From Longman Business Dictionarylossloss /lɒslɒːs/ noun1[countable, uncountable] the fact of no longer having something that you used to have, or having less of itloss of earnings through illness →job loss2[countable]FINANCE when a business spends more money than it receives in a particular period of time, or loses money in some other wayThe toy company blamed the losses on poor retail sales.The companymade a loss of 670,000ドル last year.British banks hit by heavy losses on bad loansThere’s no reason for us to operate at a loss.3ACCOUNTING book/incur/post/take a loss to lose money and make a record of this in the accountsThe unit posted losses for the past two years, hurt by the economic slump. →actual loss →after-tax loss →annual loss →capital loss →credit loss →exceptional loss →first-half loss →full-year loss →gross loss →loan loss →net loss →one-time loss →operating loss →paper loss →passive loss →pre-tax loss →quarterly loss →tax loss →trading loss →underwriting loss4[countable]INSURANCE an event that causes a person or organization to make a claim on an insurancecontract →actual total loss →consequential loss →constructive total loss →fire loss →general average loss →indirect loss →partial loss5[countable, uncountable]LAW when a person or organization suffers or loses money because of the mistakes or NEGLIGENCE of anotherOriginlossOld Englishlos"destruction"