Usually means: People injured or killed; losses.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word casualties:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. casualties: Merriam-Webster
  2. casualties: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. casualties: Collins English Dictionary
  4. casualties: Vocabulary.com
  5. Casualties, casualties: Wordnik
  6. casualties: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. casualties: Wiktionary
  8. Casualties, casualties: Dictionary.com
  9. casualties: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Casualties, The Casualties: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Casualties: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Casualties: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. casualties: FreeDictionary.org
  14. casualties: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. casualties: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Casualties (human), casualties: Legal dictionary
  3. Casualties (human), casualties: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Casualties (human), casualties: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. casualties: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Casualties (human), casualties: Medical dictionary

(Note: See casualty as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (casualty)

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