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101loss — [n] misfortune, deficit; something misplaced or lost accident, bad luck, bereavement, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, cost, damage, death, debit, debt, defeat, deficiency, depletion, deprivation, destitution, destruction, detriment,… …
102loss leader — ☆ loss leader n. any article that a store sells cheaply or below cost in order to attract customers …
103loss ratio — n. the ratio between the losses incurred and the premiums earned by an insurance company during a specified time …
104loss|mak|er — «LS MAY kuhr, LOS », noun. British. a business or industry that shows consistent losses or deficits: »What happens, when two companies, both lossmakers, merge into one? The answer, as often as not, is one big lossmaker (Manchester Guardian… …
105loss|mak|ing — «LS MAY kihng, LOS », adjective. British. showing consistent losses or deficits …
106loss|y — «LS ee, LOS », adjective. Electronics. tending to lose or dissipate energy: »At optical frequencies a metal transmission line structure would be very lossy and only transparent dielectric materials such as glass can be considered (Science… …
107loss — The opposite of gain. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * loss loss [lɒs ǁ lɒːs] noun 1. [countable, uncountable] the fact of no longer having something that you used to have, or having less of it: • loss of earnings through illness ˈjob loss… …
108Loss function — In statistics and decision theory a loss function is a function that maps an event onto a real number intuitively representing some cost associated with the event. Typically it is used for parameter estimation, and the event in question is some… …
109Löss — Lösswand in Dirmstein (Pfalz) Löss …
110loss — noun 1 losing of sth ADJECTIVE ▪ appreciable, considerable, significant, substantial ▪ dramatic, great, huge, major, serious …
