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Idioms for loss
- at less than cost; at a financial loss.
- in a state of bewilderment or uncertainty; puzzled; perplexed: We are completely at a loss for an answer to the problem.
Origin of loss
OTHER WORDS FROM losspre·loss, noun
Words nearby loss
Example sentences from the Web for loss
It’s far from the only retailer to have suffered similar losses over the past six months.Why bankruptcy is rarely the end for retailers in dire straits|Alexandra Ossola|September 17, 2020|Quartz
Sales rose 133% in the first half of 2020 to $242 million, while its net loss declined 3% to $171 million from the same period a year ago.Snowflake CEO: Doubling of stock price after IPO reflects ‘frothy’ market|Aaron Pressman|September 16, 2020|Fortune
Khudobin’s regular-season form suggested the Stars would be in good shape for a deep playoff run, the loss of their No.Teams Don’t Win The Stanley Cup With A Goal Deficit. Can The Dallas Stars Change That?|Terrence Doyle|September 16, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
Job losses at banks this year are on course to be the deepest for half a decade.The incredibly shrinking banking sector is heading for near-record job losses this year|Bernhard Warner|September 16, 2020|Fortune
You can view this as an adaptation in the female mouse, an ability to cut her losses when there’s the scent of a new male in town.
How do you celebrate when happy occasions are colored by loss and absence?
One topic that comes up among the members, she says, is dealing with loss years later.
To look at her in tears was to behold the enormity of her loss.
The fact that he was celebrating another loss for the star-crossed city of Detroit only enhances the symbolism.
One specific kind of emergency is at the heart of this, such as when an airplane suffers a loss of stability at night.Flight 8501 Poses Question: Are Modern Jets Too Automated to Fly?|Clive Irving|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
There was no doubt thought of his own loss in this question: yet there was, one may hope, a germ of solicitude for the mother too.Children's Ways|James Sully
But if what I told him were true, he was still at a loss how a kingdom could run out of its estate like a private person.Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
Hence arise factions, dissensions, and loss to their religious interests and work; and these intruders seek to rule the others.
There was a great comparing of papers, and turning over of leaves, by Fogg and Perker, after this statement of profit and loss.The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2)|Charles Dickens
The worst loss is that of Winston's ear; high principles won't obtain high explosives.Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
British Dictionary definitions for loss
- an occurrence of something that has been insured against, thus giving rise to a claim by a policyholder
- the amount of the resulting claim
- uncertain what to do; bewildered
- rendered helpless (for lack of something)at a loss for words
- at less than the cost of buying, producing, or maintaining (something)the business ran at a loss for several years
Word Origin for loss
Idioms and Phrases with loss
see at a loss; cut one's losses; dead loss.