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   casualty

   /ˈkaʒjʊəlti/

   noun

   • 1. a person killed or injured in a war or accident: "the shelling caused thousands of civilian casualties" Similar victimfatalitymortalitylossMIAdead and injured/woundedmissing in actionmissing
   • ▪ a person or thing badly affected by an event or situation: "the building industry has been one of the casualties of the recession" Similar victimsuffererloserloss
   • ▪ the department of a hospital providing immediate treatment for emergency cases. "he went to casualty to have a cut stitched"
   • ▪ (chiefly in insurance) an accident or disaster: "the Insurers acquire all the Policyholder's rights in respect of the casualty which caused the loss"

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘chance, a chance occurrence’): from medieval Latin casualitas, from casualis (see casual), on the pattern of words such as penalty.

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2. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishCASUALTY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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   CASUALTY definition: 1. a person injured or killed in a serious accident or war: 2. a person or thing that suffers as a…. Learn more.

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   The meaning of CASUALTY is a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action. How to use casualty in a sentence.

4. dictionary.cambridge.org › us › dictionaryCASUALTY | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

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   CASUALTY meaning: 1. a person injured or killed in a serious accident or war: 2. a person or thing that suffers as a…. Learn more.

5. www.vocabulary.com › dictionary › casualtyCasualty - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com

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   In wartime, you'll hear the word casualty used often for someone killed or injured. But casualty can also refer to deaths or injuries suffered in an accident or some other unfortunate event.

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   casualties, loss in numerical strength through any cause, as death, wounds, sickness, capture, or desertion. one who is injured or killed in an accident: There were no casualties in the traffic accident.

7. www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › englishCASUALTY definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

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   A casualty is a person who is injured or killed in a war or in an accident. Troops fired on demonstrators near the Royal Palace causing many casualties. Synonyms: fatality, death, loss, wounded More Synonyms of casualty. 2. countable noun.

8. www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › englishCASUALTIES definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

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   loss in numerical strength through any cause, as death, wounds, sickness, capture, or desertion. See full dictionary entry for casualty. Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC. Modified entries © 2019 by Penguin Random House LLC and HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

9. www.thefreedictionary.com › casualtyCasualty - definition of casualty by The Free Dictionary

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   casualty. ( ˈkæʒjʊəltɪ) n, pl -ties. 1. (Military) a serviceman or servicewoman who is killed, wounded, captured, or missing as a result of enemy action. 2. a person who is injured or killed in an accident. 3. (Medicine) a hospital department in which victims of accidents, violence, etc, are treated.

10. www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com › definition › american_englishcasualty noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage...

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    a person who suffers or a thing that is destroyed when something else takes place synonym victim She became a casualty of the reduction in part-time work (= she lost her job). Small businesses have been a casualty of the recession. See casualty in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Check pronunciation: casualty.

11. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › learner-englishCASUALTY | meaning - Cambridge Learner's Dictionary

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    CASUALTY definition: 1. someone who is injured or killed in an accident or war: 2. someone or something that is badly…. Learn more.