usage: gradual decline in amount or activity; "weight loss"; "a serious loss of business"
3. loss, decline, diminution
usage: the act of losing someone or something; "everyone expected him to win so his loss was a shock"
4. loss, failure
usage: the disadvantage that results from losing something; "his loss of credibility led to his resignation"; "losing him is no great deprivation"
5. loss, deprivation, disadvantage
usage: the experience of losing a loved one; "he sympathized on the loss of their grandfather"
6. loss, experience
usage: the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue; "the company operated at a loss last year"; "the company operated in the red last year"
7. loss, red ink, red, sum, sum of money, amount, amount of money
usage: military personnel lost by death or capture
8. personnel casualty, loss, casualty
usage: euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing"