| 词汇 | loss |
| 释义 | loss noun uk /lɒs/ us /lɑːs/ B2[ C or U ] the fact that you no longer have something or have less of something: 丧失，失去，失落 Many parents feel a sense of loss when their children leave home.孩子们离家后许多父母都会有失落感。 He suffered a gradual loss of memory.他的记忆力越来越差了。 There will be substantial job losses if the factory closes down.如果工厂关闭，大批工人将会失业。 He suffered hearing loss from testing aircraft engines. blood/hair/weight loss失血／脱发／体重减轻 C2[ S ] a disadvantage caused by someone leaving or by something being taken away: （某人离开带来的）损失，弊端 It would be a great loss to the department if you left.你如果离开将是该部门的巨大损失。 B2[ C or U ] the death of a person: （…的）死亡，逝世 They never got over the loss of their son.他们一直没有走出失去儿子的阴影。 C1[ C ] a situation in which a business spends more money than it earns: 亏损 The company announced a pre-tax loss of three million dollars.公司宣布税前亏损300万美元。 loss of life an occasion when a number of people die: 丧生，死亡 The plane crashed with serious loss of life.飞机失事导致很多人遇难。 Both viruses cause fever and loss of appetite.两种病毒都会引起发烧以及食欲不振。 Her death is a grievous loss to the whole of the community.她的去世是整个社区的重大损失。 The bomb explosion resulted in a tragic loss of life.炸弹爆炸造成了人员丧生的惨剧。 The club does not accept responsibility for loss of or damage to club members' personal property.该俱乐部不承担会员个人财产丢失或损坏的责任。 Naturally we want to see as few job losses in the industry as possible.当然我们希望这一行业中失业的人越少越好。 Losing and loss action astray black hole disappear escape forfeit get to kiss lose lost mislay misplace misroute miss slip through someone's fingersidiom unaccounted for unrecoverable unrecovered walkabout wave You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Advantage and disadvantage Death and dying Accounting Profits & losses Idiomsbe at a loss sorry for your loss one man's loss is another man's gain loss | American Dictionaryloss noun[ C/U ] us/lɔs/ lossnoun[C/U] (NOT HAVING)the action or state of not having or keeping something any more: [ C ]The company’s losses over the last few years have been staggering. Loss may mean death: [ U ]They never got over the loss of their son. lossnoun[C/U] (NOT CONTROLLING)the action or state of not maintaining or having control over something any more: [ C ]He suffered a gradual loss of memory in his later years. Idiomat a loss loss | Business Englishloss noun uk /lɒs/us [ C or U ] a situation in which you no longer have something or have less of something, or the process that causes this: The loss of jobs in the convenience food industry seems inevitable. loss of earnings/income/payShe received compensation for loss of earnings through the illness. a loss in sthThe new road will cause losses in economic value to many local properties. [ C ] FINANCE, COMMERCE a situation in which a business or an organization spends more money than it earns, or loses money in another way: announce/post/report a loss (of sth)The company announced a loss of €1.3m last year. a loss in revenue big/financial/heavy losses a net/operating loss a pre-tax/after-tax loss incur/make/realize a lossIn a bid to attract customers, some insurers may even be making a loss on contracts marketed to certain key buyers. a loss on an investment/a sale [ C ] STOCK MARKET a situation in which the value of shares goes down: a loss in sthGains in oil and gas were partly offset by losses in consumer products and precious metals. [ U ] INSURANCE a situation in which property is damaged, lost, or stolen, and an insurance company must pay to replace it: We will cover your house contents against accidental loss or damage during the removal. [ C ] a disadvantage caused by someone leaving an organization: be a loss to sb/sthIt would be a great loss to the department if you left. loss of face a situation in which someone loses the respect of other people because of something they have done: His first deal with the company had turned into a very public loss of face. See also lose operate, run, etc. at a loss FINANCE, COMMERCE to fail to make a profit in a business: Of the 235 large industrial projects, 46 are running at a loss. Compare gainnoun profitnoun See also actual loss all-loss annual loss capital loss credit loss exceptional loss first-half loss full-year loss gross loss job loss loan loss net loss one-time loss operating loss paper loss passive loss quarterly loss tax loss trading loss underwriting loss Examples of lossloss Our motivation for that restraint can be less than virtuous; it may be based on mental comfort or a rational calculation of profits and losses. In all cases, the number of acquired genes is higher than the number of genes losses in the branch of the sister grouping. Because the total losses from unprofitable routes are greater than before, the government would have to increase its subsidy. The losses in mailer welfare, which are of course opposite in sign from the profits, are substantially larger in magnitude than the profits. However, when defined contribution plans, like 401(k) plans, incur such losses, the individual plan participants are directly affected and bear the losses themselves. A young policeman in a leather jacket painfully, letter by letter, typed my losses on an ancient machine. Ultimately the net benefits from insider dealing must equal the net losses. Firms then have to adopt" inflation accounting" techniques in which all costs, revenues, profits and losses are fully adjusted for inflation. The magnitude of such losses is very difficult to estimate. He saw little chance of recouping war losses easily. If the latter, heavy losses in a better quality army would be very dysgenic. Such data are not available because many losses are never discovered and others are never reported, even within the organizations where they occurred. Capital gains (or losses) and lump-sum or one-time payments such as life insurance settlements are excluded. At each stage of the family life cycle more losses may need to be negotiated, as well as the usual critical periods for any family. The data are complicated by the inclusion of control (natural) losses of prey at various availabilities. See all examples of loss 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. Collocations withlosslossThese are words often used in combination with loss. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. age-related loss This abrupt decline in the abundance of darkened photoreceptors coincides with the age by which 50% of the age-related loss in visual acuity is achieved. anticipated loss The council arrived at an anticipated loss not of £1·1 million but of £300,000. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 catastrophic loss Nonliving things, having relatively fewer correlated features, are vulnerable to damage on a more individual basis, but then show a less catastrophicloss as the disease progresses. 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. See all collocations with loss |
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