casualty

noun [C]

/ˈkæʒ·u·əl·ti, ˈkæʒ·əl·ti/

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› a person hurt or killed in a war or other destructive event, or something prevented by an event: The number of casualties from Sunday's tsunami continues to rise. New team uniforms were a casualty of the budget cuts.

(Definition of casualty noun from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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