potential loss

collocation in English

meanings of potentialand loss

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potential
adjective[before noun]
uk /pəˈten.ʃəl/ us /poʊˈten.ʃəl/
possible when the necessary ...
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loss
noun
uk /lɒs/ us /lɑːs/
the fact that you no longer have something or have less ...
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Examples of potential loss

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Among crops, the total global potentialloss due to pests varied from about 50 % in wheat to more than 80 % in cotton production.
Two loss rates have to be differentiated : the potentialloss and the actual loss.
He was, however, bothered by the potentialloss of moral autonomy once they did so.
The alternative version framed the cue as a potentialloss: 'states with small populations could have less influence'.
To reduce or eliminate this potentialloss in pension benefits, many employers have provided transitional benefits to their senior employees.
Such transition benefits reduce the potentialloss in pension wealth associated with the plan conversion and typically, result in fewer complaints.
Overall, weeds produced the highest potentialloss (34 %), with animal pests and pathogens being less important (losses of 18 and 16 %).
Despite potentialloss of autonomy and impaired competency, some patients may be able to participate in decisionmaking.
However, the efficiency of the parser based on these restricted rules can far exceed the potentialloss of information.
This potentialloss of barrier function might exacerbate neuropathology by causing an early toxic accumulation of amyloid-b in endothelial cells and astrocytes.
No work is duplicated thereby, but there is a potentialloss of space if both copies stay live for a while.
Besides these trends, which often increase the potentialloss of crops, the efficacy of pest control strategies has changed in many regions.
Winners may support the same reform proposals but their support for change decreased more when the proposals were framed as a potentialloss.
Especially the decision to discard items tagged as proper nouns unavoidably led to the potentialloss of relevant data because of wrongly tagged items.
Irrespective of the availability of control measures, the control of pests having a low potentialloss is not economically justifiable.
The potentialloss due to weeds was estimated to be higher than the sum of the potential losses due to animal pests (16 %), pathogens (9 %) and viruses (3 %).
There is arguably a tension here with the fact that actors lose most of their protection through voluntary publicity: the more familiar the face, the greater the potentialloss.
Others have converted everyone to the new plan, but have given senior workers a supplemental balance that makes up for the potentialloss of benefits due to the plan conversion.
In combination with the production of susceptible crops, often grown with two harvests per year or without crop rotation, this results in a high potentialloss due to pests.
Note that this lambda lifting is unusual in that it may lift bindings which are not function bindings, like the conversion for g, leading to a potentialloss of sharing.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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