2. Noun. Collective tally of injuries and fatalities of an event. ¹
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Definition of Casualties
1. casualty [n] - See also: casualty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Casualties
Literary usage of Casualties
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"casualties during campaign : 9 deaths. The regiment was mustered out at ...
casualties up to April 4, 1899 : 14 men killed, 3 officers and 38 men wounded. ..."
2. The New York Times Current History (1919)
"The engagement around Lens, which began on June 11, resulted in heavy casualties
through the machine- gun fire which was brought to bear on the Canadians ..."
3. The Medical Implications of Nuclear War by Frederic Solomon (1986)
"National Academy Press, Washington, DC Burn and Blast casualties: Triage in
Nuclear War JENNIFER LEANING, MD Harvard Community Health Plan, Boston, ..."
4. Styles of Deeds and Instruments: In Accordance with the Titles to Land by John Hendry, John Thompson Mowbray (1878)
"The discharge of casualties may he effected also by charter of ... right to all
casualties is discharged. Ko.88. MEMORANDUM constituting a Feu-Duty or ..."
5. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1880)
"Number of occurrences 4 6 1 casualties, fatal, 2 S 1 casualties, ... Total occurrences,
38 40 14 Total fatal casualties, 14 28 11 Total casualties, ..."
6. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1868)
"TITE loss of life and property by reason of marine casualties, bt- of late been
so very considerable, that a short paper upon the subject of statistical ..."
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