Collocations for "loss"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "loss" in context.
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loss
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [heavy, severe, humiliating] loss
- [capital, financial, net] loss
- suffers from [memory, hearing, sight] loss
- a [permanent, temporary] loss (of memory)
- a loss of [data, information]
- [a terrible, an overwhelming] sense of loss
- [encourage, promote, notice] weight loss
- the plane experienced a (slight) loss in [speed, pressure]
- a loss of cabin pressure
- [sustained, suffered] heavy losses in the [storm, battle, attack]
- losses from the [battle, storm] totaled [100, $400]
- the army [sustained, suffered] heavy losses (in soldiers)
- the [gambler, investor, market] suffered heavy losses
- the challenger [inflected, delivered] a humiliating loss on
- [mourn, grieve] the loss of a [relative, parent, grandparent]
- the loss of (a) life
- (I'm) sorry for your loss
- his death is a terrible loss to [music, politics]
- oh well - (it's) your loss!
- your loss is our gain
- [five] wins and [two] losses
- a loss in [value, strength, productivity, quality]
- a loss of [votes, voters, support]
- weight-loss [programs, products, clubs, bars, supplements, diets]
- the loss leader [attracted, lured, enticed] customers
- [perishables, goods, cookies, discs] sold as loss leaders
- a loss leader [item, product, brand, range]
'loss' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
January
- acceptance
- account
- ache
- afford
- amenable
- anguish
- anyhow
- appetite
- automation
- bad-tempered
- bearing
- big
- bitter
- blame
- blood
- bloody
- blow
- brain
- brush
- cabin
- can
- comfort
- compensate
- cope
- counsel
- craze
- cry
- damp
- dead
- deal
- depress
- depressed
- depression
- despair
- diet
- disappoint
- disappointing
- distract
- distress
- diversity
- dramatic
- dying
- edgy
- ensuing
- erase
- ever
- experience
- explain
- explanation