casualty
IPA: kˈæʒʌwʌɫti
noun
- Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster.
- A person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence.
- (proscribed) Specifically, a person who has been killed (not only injured) due to an accident or through an act of violence; a fatality.
- (military) A person in military service who becomes unavailable for duty, for any reason (notably death, injury, illness, capture, or desertion).
- (Britain) The accident and emergency department of a hospital providing immediate treatment; a casualty department or emergency room.
- An incidental charge or payment.
- Someone or something adversely affected by a decision, event or situation.
- (obsolete) Chance nature; randomness.
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Examples of "casualty" in Sentences
- This was the only casualty of the skirmish.
- Maybe it was a casualty of the infernal split.
- An unfortunate casualty of the rift was the WMPC.
- When the first casualty is the truth, there can be no victor
- All the same here: very calm in casualty and custody prior to midnight.
- The most immediate casualty is Jack Lew, Obama's choice for OMB director.
- To the person on the street, that casualty is going to be like the final casualty of their war.
- Another casualty is the entertainment district along Jackson Street, Jensen's plan for an eight-block stretch of nightclubs, restaurants and other attractions.
- The luckless Sandro tore a calf muscle and, according to Redknapp, will be a long-term casualty, and William Gallas damaged the same muscle and "didn't look very good".
- He was driven off with his head strapped to a gurney, with the most serious casualty from a 3-hour, 35-minute contest that delayed was delayed several times by injury timeouts.
- BAGHDAD — As Iraqi politicians wrangle through a seventh month of government-formation talks, an unexpected casualty is emerging: Iranian influence over the country's fractured Shiite groups.
- As it takes me a week to read your average manuscript, and up to two weeks to read your average 600-page fantasy tome? and this when Iâ⠂ ¬â „ ¢m not beset by administrative busywork? the casualty is my ability to read outside my own submission pil
- With Thomas Vermaelen a long-term casualty with a mystery achilles problem, Wenger has started Djourou in all five of the club's fixtures since New Year's Day and the Swiss looked tired and below par in the fifth – the 3-0 victory at West Ham United on Saturday.
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