casualty — ca·su·al·ty / ka zhəl tē, ka zhə wəl / n pl ties 1: an unfortunate occurrence; esp: a serious and often disastrous accident conversion of property...arising from fire, storm, shipwreck, or other casualty Internal Revenue Code 2: something lost,… … Law dictionary
casualty — cas‧u‧al‧ty [ˈkæʒuəlti] noun casualties PLURALFORM [countable] 1. a person, project, or company that suffers very badly or goes out of business as a result of something: • The airline is the latest casualty of the recession. • The marketing… … Financial and business terms
Casualty — may refer to:*Casualty (person), a person who is killed or injured in a war or disaster * The emergency department of a hospital, also known as a casualty department (chiefly British) *Casualty (TV series), the world s longest running emergency… … Wikipedia
casualty — [n1] accident blow, calamity, catastrophe, chance, contingency, debacle, disaster, misadventure, misfortune, mishap; concept 674 casualty [n2] victim dead, death toll, fatality, injured, killed, loss, missing, prey, sufferer, wounded; concepts… … New thesaurus
casualty — (n.) early 15c., chance, accident; incidental charge, from L. casualis (see CASUAL (Cf. casual)) on model of royalty, penalty, etc. Casuality had some currency 16c. 17c. but is now obsolete. Meaning losses in numbers from a military or other… … Etymology dictionary
casualty — *accident, mishap Analogous words: *disaster, calamity, catastrophe, cataclysm: *misfortune, mischance, mishap … New Dictionary of Synonyms
casualty — The main current meaning is now ‘a person killed or injured in a war or accident’. The historically earlier meaning of the mishap itself is less common, although the two are sometimes interwoven, e.g. All wars have caused casualties among… … Modern English usage
casualty — ► NOUN (pl. casualties) 1) a person killed or injured in a war or accident. 2) a person or thing badly affected by an event or situation: the firm was one of the casualties of the recession. ORIGIN originally in the sense «a chance occurrence»:… … English terms dictionary
casualty — [kazh′o͞o əl tē] n. pl. casualties [ME & OFr casuelte < ML casualitas: see CASUAL] 1. an accident, esp. a fatal one 2. Mil. a) a member of the armed forces who is lost to active service through being killed, wounded, captured, interned, sick,… … English World dictionary
casualty — noun 1 person killed/injured in a war/an accident ADJECTIVE ▪ heavy, high, serious ▪ light, low ▪ pedestrian, road (both BrE) … Collocations dictionary
