losses
- 1Plural of loss.
The company reported significant financial losses for the quarter.
Both armies counted their losses after the battle ended.
Note
A plural that only some meanings of loss can take. Countable losses pluralize freely: defeats in a season, deaths in a war, things destroyed, possessions gone missing. Loss as ruin in general, or as the grief of bereavement, works as a mass noun and normally stays singular. Someone is coping with loss, not with losses. The spelling follows the usual rule after a final -s: add -es.
losses is a form of loss
loss, noun: The fact of no longer having something, or of having less of it, because it has been taken away, destroyed, used up, or mislaid. Full entry
- Forms
- losslosses plural
- Spelling
- loss → losses: add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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