Meaning of CASUALTY
| Pronunciation: | | 'kazhooultee
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- [n] a decrease of military personnel or equipment
- [n] an accident that causes someone to die
- [n] someone injured or killed in an accident
- [n] someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement
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| | Synonyms: | | fatal accident, injured party |
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| | See Also: | | accident, damage, decrease, drop-off, equipment casualty, fatality, human death, lessening, loss, personnel casualty, victim | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Cas"u*al*ty\, n.; pl. {Casualties}. [F. casualit['e],
LL. casualitas.]
1. That which comes without design or without being foreseen;
contingency.
Losses that befall them by mere casualty. --Sir W.
Raleigh.
2. Any injury of the body from accident; hence, death, or
other misfortune, occasioned by an accident; as, an
unhappy casualty.
3. pl. (Mil. & Naval) Numerical loss caused by death, wounds,
discharge, or desertion.
{Casualty ward}, A ward in a hospital devoted to the
treatment of injuries received by accident.
Syn: Accident; contingency; fortuity; misfortune.
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