How to pronounce “loss”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (countable) The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement.
• (uncountable) The destruction or ruin of an object.
• (countable) Something that has been destroyed or ruined.
• (countable) Defeat; an instance of being defeated.
• (countable) The death of a person or animal.
• (uncountable) The condition of grief caused by losing someone or something, especially someone who has died.
• (financial, countable) The sum an entity loses on balance.
• (engineering) Electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work.
• [Verb]
• (colloquial) Alternative spelling of lost.

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