casualty
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈkaʒ(ʊ)əlti/
casualty
- Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster.
- 1756, Samuel Johnson, “The Life of Sir Thomas Browne” in Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, p. xx,
- The course of his education was like that of others, such as put him little in the way of extraordinary casualties.
- 1756, Samuel Johnson, “The Life of Sir Thomas Browne” in Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, p. xx,
- A person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence.
- (proscribed) Specifically, a person who has been killed (not only injured) due to an accident or through an act of violence; a fatality.
- (military) A person in military service who becomes unavailable for duty, for any reason (notably death, injury, illness, capture, or desertion).
- (British) The accident and emergency department of a hospital.
- An incidental charge or payment.
- (obsolete) Chance nature; randomness.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗:, NYRB 2001, vol.1, p.327-8:
- The non-necessary [causes] follow; of which, saith Fuchsius, no art can be made, by reason of their uncertainty, casualty, and multitude […]
- (something that happens by chance) fortune, luck; see also Thesaurus:luck
- (hospital's accident and emergency)
- emergency / emergency room / emergency department / emergency ward / E. R./E.R./ER
- casualty department / casualty ward
- accident and emergency / A&E
- French: victime
- German: Opfer, Verletzter, Verwundeter, Verunglückter, Toter, Gefallener, Verlust, Ausfall, Todesfall, Todesopfer, Unfallopfer
- Italian: ferito
- Portuguese: baixa
- Russian: же́ртва
- Spanish: baja, víctima
- French: urgences
- Russian: травматология
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