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What (who) is casualty - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Casuality; Casualty (disambiguation); Casuality (disambiguation)
Casualty
·noun Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion.
II. Casualty ·noun That which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency.
III. Casualty ·noun Any injury of the body from accident; hence, death, or other misfortune, occasioned by an accident; as, an unhappy casualty.
casualty
n. 1) an accident which could not have been foreseen or guarded against, such as a shipwreck caused by storm or fire caused by lightning. 2) the loss, as of life, from such an unavoidable accident. The courts remain inconsistent on the exact definition.
See also: casualty loss
casualty
(casualties)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
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.
N-COUNT
2.
A casualty of a particular event or situation is a person or a thing that has suffered badly as a result of that event or situation.
Fiat has been one of the greatest casualties of the recession.
= victim
N-COUNT: usu N of n
3.
Casualty is the part of a hospital where people who have severe injuries or sudden illnesses are taken for emergency treatment. (BRIT; in AM, use emergency room
)
)
I was taken to casualty at St Thomas's Hospital.
N-UNCOUNT
Wikipedia
Casualty
Casualty may refer to:
- Casualty (person), a person who is killed or rendered unfit for service in a war or natural disaster
- Civilian casualty, a non-combatant killed or injured in warfare
- The emergency department of a hospital, also known as a Casualty Department or Casualty Ward (chiefly in the UK and in some English-speaking Commonwealth nations)
- Casualty (TV series), a long-running British emergency medical drama series
- Casualty 1900s, a British medical drama, then series, including Casualty 1906, Casualty 1907, and Casualty 1909
- Casualty insurance, a type of insurance
Examples of use of casualty
1. "When they started shouting, ‘Casualty, Casualty‘, the world stopped," he said.
2. U.S. officials declined to give casualty figures.
3. "Any civilian casualty is unacceptable," he added.
4. Casualty figures were disputed in Sunday‘s attack.
5. Official casualty figures were not immediately available.