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

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

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   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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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. Mitt Romney:

   Adding insult to dishonor, the administration speaks cavalierly, even flippantly, even as our ally has suffered death and casualty, we once abandoned a red line. Now we abandon an ally.

2. Gordon Chang:

   For China, the truth has always been a casualty.

3. Army Cpt .:

   Before patient arrival, test participants with the 44th Medical Brigade studied patient information on the Medical Hands-free Unified Broadcast device. ( Ashley Force, U.S. Army) Testing of the device has been taking place at the U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory( USAARL) in Fort Rucker, Ala. The test, which examined how field hospital staff used the device, involved mass casualty simulations with mannequinsmocked up to look like combat victims with gunshot wounds, burns and amputations. The so-called golden hour for battlefield medical treatment is a cornerstone of U.S. military medicine. The term refers to the all-important 60 minutes following a battlefield wound and the critical importance of swift, effective medical care. MARINES 3D-PRINT CONCRETE BARRACKS IN JUST 40 HOURS Anything that helps speed up treatment could prove key to saving lives. For some patients, the Golden Hour is ultimately too long, these patients need to be treated within minutes.

4. Hiram Johnson:

   The first casualty when war comes, is truth

5. William McRaven:

   When I heard, after the fact, that it was only at the last minute that the President realized there would be casualties, frankly, I find that hard to believe because the casualty count is almost always part of the military's briefing when it comes to a strike on a target.

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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