Meaning of Casualty | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster.
   countable, uncountable
2. A person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence.
   countable, uncountable
3. Specifically, a person who has been killed (not only injured) due to an accident or through an act of violence; a fatality.
   countable, proscribed, uncountable
4. A person in military service who becomes unavailable for duty, for any reason (notably death, injury, illness, capture, or desertion).
   countable, uncountable
5. Clipping of casualty department: the accident and emergency department of a hospital providing immediate treatment.
   British, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable
6. An incidental charge or payment.
   countable, uncountable
7. Someone or something adversely affected by a decision, event or situation.
   countable, uncountable
8. Chance nature; randomness.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

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Examples

“1756, Samuel Johnson, “The Life of Sir Thomas Browne” in Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, p. xx, The course of his education was like⟳ that of others, such as put⟳ him little in the way of extraordinary casualties.”

“Among recent casualties is the S.B.B.'s branch from Nyon to Divonne-les-Bains, just across the French frontier, closed to all traffic at the commencement of the winter service.”

“Today, the pocket calculator is a dying product, a casualty of digitization, which has been relegated to the role of a graphic icon on phone and computer screens rather than an object in its own⟳ right, but back in the early 1970s, it was at the forefront of consumer technology.”

“The non-necessary [causes] follow⟳; of which, saith Fuchsius, no art can be made, by reason⟳ of their uncertainty, casualty, and multitude […]”

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