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How to pronounce casualty in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms injured party
Type of victim
Type Words
Synonyms fatal accident
Type of human death, fatality, accident
Has types collateral damage
Type Words
Type of lessening, decrease, drop-off
Has types loss, equipment casualty, damage, personnel casualty
Type Words
Type of victim

Examples of casualty

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It also saw him help pick up a casualty with serious head injuries in Snowdonia.
From the metro.co.uk
Car insurance is three-quarters of the country's property and casualty business.
From the economist.com
Feedlounge, a subscription-based online RSS reader, is the most recent casualty.
From the techcrunch.com
As the casualty numbers tick upward, Joe Biden's feelings will have been spared.
From the theatlantic.com
She built a website, got official casualty reports and searched for photographs.
From the freep.com
In the Ciudad Juarez of 2008, you don't have to wait long for the next casualty.
From the latimes.com
Israeli TV focused mostly on Israeli casualty reports and Hamas rocket barrages.
From the usatoday.com
It's stalled in the U.S. Senate, a casualty of a reason-free immigration debate.
From the sacbee.com
She said the casualty toll could rise pending an update from hospital officials.
From the washingtonpost.com
More examples
  • Someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement
  • Fatal accident: an accident that causes someone to die
  • A decrease of military personnel or equipment
  • A casualty is a person who is the victim of an accident, injury, or trauma. The word casualties is most often used by the news media to describe deaths and injuries resulting from wars or disasters. Casualties is sometimes misunderstood to mean fatalities, but non-fatal injuries are also casualties.
  • The twenty-fourth series of the British medical drama television series Casualty commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 12 September 2009 and concluded on 21 August 2010. Events of the series included a crossover with sister show Holby City.
  • Casualty is a weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The producer was Geraint Morris. ...
  • (Casualties (movie)) Casualties of War is a war drama directed by Brian De Palma, with a screenplay by David Rabe, based on the actual events of the incident on Hill 192 in 1966 during the Vietnam War. nAn article written by Daniel Lang for The New Yorker in 1969 was the movie's primary source.
  • (The Casualties) The Casualties are an American punk band from New York City, New York, formed in 1990. Their musical style is usually classified as street punk or hardcore punk.
  • (casualties) People who are killed, wounded, captured, or missing in a war or battle.