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- noun something lost, especially money lost at gambling. Inverse of winnings.
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- verb Plural form of
losing . - noun Monetary losses, as from gambling;
losses .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun something lost (especially money lost at gambling)
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Examples
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I heard the interview and hadn't even though about losings ones bearing having to deal with age.
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My sympathies are with those who are just too old and/or infirm to hold down jobs and who listened to financial advisors who urged them to invest in ways that have turned their savings into losings.
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CalebAesop: humidity is raising temperature, and in the process of condensing there is circle of energy losings.
Make Your Refrigerator Far More Efficient | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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In a zero-sum game, like poker, the total of winnings and losings of all players is zero: one player's gain implies another player's loss.
Dimensions of Wholeness (from the PARABLE OF THE TRIBES) 2008
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Maybe the Amish are much smarter than most people think, self sufficiency is a very important quality to posses, Our elected leaders should think about the U.S. losings its self sufficiency in its rotten free trade agreements.
USA's Economic Disaster Tsunami Is Under Way. Ordinary Solutions Won't Work to Save Us 2008
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So, using your logic, if a corporation a money making machine sees losings in the acknowledgement of a scientific fact, and the subsequent adoption of the clean standards associated, the corporation must wait until receives a mandate issued by the government?
Think Progress » Exxon’s New Position On Global Warming, Same As Its Old Position On Global Warming 2007
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Will and the chaplain may have played against him, solicitous constantly to increase their stakes, and supposing that the wealthy Virginian wished to let them recover all their losings.
The Virginians 2006
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Tens of thousands of Iraqis losing their lives, many thousands of young Americans losings their limbs if not their lives, hundreds of thousands of Americans kept from their friends and families indefinitely.
"We're not winning, we're not losing." Ann Althouse 2006
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My uncle was maimed, as I have said; Pippi, like all impostors, was a coward; it was my unrivalled skill with the sword, and readiness to use it, that maintained the reputation of the firm, so to speak, and silenced many a timid gambler who might have hesitated to pay his losings.
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Right now facebook is the “it” company but when sooner or later things go south, as in facebook losings its effectiveness, the whole system will come tumbling down. reply
Biggest Battle Yet For Social Networks: You, Your Identity And Your Data On The Open Web Michael Arrington 2005
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