Definitions for CASUALTY
ˈkæʒ u əl tica·su·al·ty

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. casualtynoun

   someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement

2. casualty, injured partynoun

   someone injured or killed in an accident

3. fatal accident, casualtynoun

   an accident that causes someone to die

4. casualtynoun

   a decrease of military personnel or equipment

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. casualtynoun

   Chance nature; randomness.

2. casualtynoun

   Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster.

3. casualtynoun

   A person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence.

4. casualtynoun

   The accident and emergency department of a hospital

5. Etymology: From casualitas (compare casuality).

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Casualtynoun

   Etymology: from casual.

   1. Accident; a thing happening by chance, not design.

   With more patience men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty, than the damages which they sustain by injustice. Walter Raleigh, Essays.

   That Octavius Cæsar should shift his camp that night that it happened to be took by the enemy, was a mere casualty; yet it preserved a person, who lived to establish a total alteration of government in the imperial city of the world. South.

   2. Chance that produces unnatural death.

   Builds in the weather on the outward wall,
   Ev’n in the force and road of casualty. William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice.

   It is observed in particular nations, that, within the space of two or three hundred years, notwithstanding all casualties, the number of men doubles. Thomas Burnet, Theory of the Earth.

   We find one casualty in our bills, of which, though there be daily talk, there is little effect. John Graunt, Bills of Mortality.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. casualty

   A casualty refers to a person who is killed, injured, or harmed as a result of a war, accident, disaster, or any other unfortunate event. It can also refer to serious damage or loss in something, such as a business or property.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Casualtynoun

   that which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency

2. Casualtynoun

   any injury of the body from accident; hence, death, or other misfortune, occasioned by an accident; as, an unhappy casualty

3. Casualtynoun

   numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Casualty

   Casualty, stylised as CASUAL+Y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The original producer was Geraint Morris. The programme is based around the fictional Holby City Hospital and focuses on the staff and patients of the hospital's Accident and Emergency Department. The show has very few ties to its sister programme Holby City which began as a spin off from Casualty in 1999 and is set in the same hospital, but upstairs. The show's plots and characters occasionally crossover between the two programmes, but this is rare, and each show can easily be followed without having to watch the other. Casualty is shown weekly on a Saturday evening, which has been its time slot since the early 1990s.

Dictionary of Military and Associated TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. casualty

   Any person who is lost to the organization by having been declared dead, duty status

Matched Categories

1. • Accident
   • Decrease
   • Fatality
   • Military
   • Victim

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'CASUALTY' in Nouns Frequency: #2058

How to pronounce CASUALTY?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of CASUALTY in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of CASUALTY in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of CASUALTY in a Sentence

1. Kenneth Stuck:

   The Army casualty office called me and told me that ‘we have your brother,’ i had to pull over and call my son to tell him to come get me because my car was flooded -- with my tears.

2. Leonardo Alonso:

   The ICUs, the hospitals are all on a near what we call mass casualty incident. They’re almost at protocols where they’re overflowing.

3. Matthew Henman:

   High profile, mass casualty attacks are a tried and tested method of changing the narrative and deflecting attention away from the problems it is facing, this is done for internal consumption just as much as external.

4. Masato Naito:

   For overseas property and casualty insurance M&A, there is a team within our international business division and we have been increasing the number of staff, we also have a different team for overseas life insurance M&A.

5. Matt Knight:

   We have the right resources in place to conduct the necessary inspections, determine the extent of the damage and required repairs, and return Fort Worth back to operational status, we are working diligently to minimize the operational impact of this maintenance casualty.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=CASUALTY
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Casualty
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=CASUALTY
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/CASUALTY
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=CASUALTY
7. ^ Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
   https://www.tradoc.army.mil/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AD1029823-DOD-Dictionary-of-Military-and-Associated-Terms-2017.pdf