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casualty
/ˈkæʒu.əlti/
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What does casualty mean?
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.
- Specifically, a person who has been killed (not only injured) due to an accident or through an act of violence; a fatality.
More meanings (5)
noun
- A person in military service who becomes unavailable for duty, for any reason (notably death, injury, illness, capture, or desertion).
- Clipping of casualty department: the accident and emergency department of a hospital providing immediate treatment.
- An incidental charge or payment.
- Someone or something adversely affected by a decision, event or situation.
- (obsolete) Chance nature; randomness.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈkæʒu.əlti/
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See this word in context.
We owe it to mere casualty, that very serious embarrassments on this subject have been hitherto escaped.
I tired out and disqualified many battalions, yet never had a casualty myself nor lost a man.
More book examples (3)
It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know.
On the contrary we would all of us to a certain extent assist him, under any unforeseen casualty and tribulation.
It found the opposing medical services unequipped, not only to treat the new type of casualty, but even to determine its nature rapidly and efficiently.