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nounsomething lost (especially money lost at gambling)
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- record the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had
- wash any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
- partnership a contract between two or more persons who agree to pool talent and money and share profits or losses
- leverage investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses)
- plunger someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains
- pyrrhus king of Epirus; defeated the Romans in two battles in spite of staggering losses (319-272 BC)
- reimbursement compensation paid (to someone) for damages or losses or money already spent etc.
- remuneration the act of paying for goods or services or to recompense for losses
- pyrrhic of or relating to or resembling Pyrrhus or his exploits (especially his sustaining staggering losses in order to defeat the Romans)
- speculator someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains