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casualty
[ kazh-oo-uhl-tee ]
noun
- Military.
- a member of the armed forces lost to service through death, wounds, sickness, capture, or because their whereabouts or condition cannot be determined.
- 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.
- any person, group, thing, etc., that is harmed or destroyed as a result of some act or event:
Their house was a casualty of the fire.
- a serious accident, especially one involving bodily injury or death.
casualty
/ ˈæʊəɪ /
noun
- a serviceman who is killed, wounded, captured, or missing as a result of enemy action
- a person who is injured or killed in an accident
- a hospital department in which victims of accidents, violence, etc, are treated
- anything that is lost, damaged, or destroyed as the result of an accident, etc
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Among the casualties in the ongoing trade hostilities is tourism.
Humanity is going to need to come up with ways to prevent these re-entries from becoming casualties.
At this stage in the war, battlefield casualties on both sides inflicted by drones "way outnumber those inflicted by artillery", the UK defence secretary said.
Rex Frazier, president of the Personal Insurance Federation of California, which represents major property and casualty insurers, said the lawsuit represents a “bona fide dispute” over Fair Plan policy language regarding smoke damage.
A number of war analysts - both in Ukraine and the West - have questioned the military expedience of Kyiv's operations on Russian soil, pointing to reported high combat casualties and weapons supply difficulties.
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