Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun something lost, especially money lost at gambling. Inverse of winnings.
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- noun Plural form of
loss .
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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To start with, anyone who concludes you could shut down the NYC subway system and only incur a couple billion in losses is smoking some crack.
Matthew Yglesias » Marginal Cost Pricing for Mass Transit 2010
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The same government that owns the US postal service will it's $3.8 Billion in losses is branching out to conttrol health care and along with that is a threat of jail time and fines if you down fall in line! wHAT tir
Democrats slam GOP as party of 'fear' in health care debate 2009
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To start with, anyone who concludes you could shut down the NYC subway system and only incur a couple billion in losses is smoking some crack.
Matthew Yglesias » Marginal Cost Pricing for Mass Transit 2010
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The same government that owns the US postal service will it's $3.8 Billion in losses is branching out to conttrol health care and along with that is a threat of jail time and fines if you don't fall in line!
Democrats slam GOP as party of 'fear' in health care debate 2009
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"The determination from the carriers has been remarkable. they are determined to stem the title losses and actually start to recouping some of the losses from last year - they were great."
Latest Articles The Business Insider 2010
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On a linked quarter basis, the corporate real estate transaction, as expected and as expected lower in the term losses on retail auto leases, accounted for the majority of the variance.
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The part where you said you were overcome and ended up in a hospital intrigued me, I'm looking for a game where failing doesn't give you the game over screen, where failing and recouping your losses is all part of the game.
War stories from Mosate Soleo Ben Abraham 2008
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The agency is running a deficit, which it defines as losses from plans it has taken on plus estimated losses from plans it is likely to take over.
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Despite the short term losses, Swelim, who has had two major American tour groups - one from the Stanford Alumni Association and the other from Yale - cancel planned trips, believes that Egypt will eventually be better off.
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The researchers were interested in what happened when a home team suffered an upset, which they defined as losses in games that the home team had been predicted to win by more than 3 points.
Latest Articles 2009
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