Usually means: Decrease in value or quantity.
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We found 57 dictionaries that define the word loss:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. loss: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. loss, loss: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. loss: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. loss: Collins English Dictionary
  5. loss: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. loss: Wiktionary
  7. loss: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. loss: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. loss: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. loss: Dictionary.com
  11. loss: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. loss: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Loss (Bass Communion album), Loss (Mull Historical Society album), Loss (baseball), Loss (comic), Loss (film), Loss, The Loss: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Loss: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. loss: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. loss: Rhymezone
  17. loss: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. loss: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Loss: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. loss: Free Dictionary
  21. loss: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. loss: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. loss: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. loss: Vocabulary.com
  25. Loss, loss: Wordnik

Business (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. loss: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. loss: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  6. LOSS: Accounting Glossary
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Loss: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  10. Loss (futures), loss: Legal dictionary
  11. Loss (futures), loss: Financial dictionary
  12. Loss: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  13. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. loss: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Loss (futures), loss: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Reactive Attachment Disorder (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Loss (futures), loss: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. LOSS: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. loss: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. loss: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. loss: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. loss: Electronics
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Loss: Building pathology glossary
  5. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

(Note: See lossing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement.
noun:  (uncountable) The destruction or ruin of an object.
noun:  (countable) Something that has been destroyed or ruined.
noun:  (countable) Defeat; an instance of being defeated.
noun:  (countable) The death of a person or animal.
noun:  (uncountable) The condition of grief caused by losing someone or something, especially someone who has died.
noun:  (financial, countable) The sum an entity loses on balance.
noun:  (engineering) Electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work.
verb:  (colloquial) Alternative spelling of lost

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