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- DictionaryCas·u·al·ty/ˈkaZH(o͞o)əltē/
noun
- 1. a person killed or injured in a war or accident: "the shelling caused thousands of civilian casualties"
casualties, loss in numerical strength through any cause, as death, wounds, sickness, capture, or desertion. one who is injured or killed in an accident: There were no casualties in the traffic accident.
Anyone who loses life or limb, either in the fighting or as a civilian, is called a casualty. You can also use this word figuratively: if a local elementary school loses funding for their art classes and after-school activities, you can say that the students are casualties of budget cuts.
4 days ago · A casualty is a person who is injured or killed in a war or in an accident. Troops fired on demonstrators near the Royal Palace causing many casualties. Synonyms: fatality, death, loss, wounded More Synonyms of casualty. 2. countable noun.
a person who suffers or a thing that is destroyed when something else takes place synonym victim She became a casualty of the reduction in part-time work (= she lost her job). Small businesses have been a casualty of the recession. See casualty in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Check pronunciation: casualty.
noun. /ˈkæʒuəlti/ (plural casualties) [countable] a person who is killed or injured in war or in an accident. Our primary objective is reducing road casualties. Both sides had suffered heavy casualties (= many people had been killed). Wordfinder. Collocations War and peace. Extra Examples. Topics War and conflict c1. Oxford Collocations Dictionary.
someone or something that is badly affected by something that happens: The health service has been the biggest casualty of government cuts. casualty noun (HOSPITAL) the part of a hospital where people go when they have been injured or have illnesses so that they can be treated immediately.
CASUALTY meaning: 1 : a person who is hurt or killed during an accident, war, etc.; 2 : a person or thing that is harmed, lost, or destroyed victim usually + of.
