CASUALTY

casualty

(noun) a decrease of military personnel or equipment

casualty, injured party

(noun) someone injured or killed in an accident

casualty

(noun) someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

casualty (countable and uncountable, plural casualties)

Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster.

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.

Usage notes

The term casualty is sometimes used to mean “a killed person”; in more careful use this is referred to as a fatality, and casualty instead means “killed or injured”.

Synonyms

• (something that happens by chance): fortune, luck; see also 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

Hyponyms

• fatality

Source: Wiktionary

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Cas"u*al*ty, n.; pl. Casualties. Etym: [F. casualité, LL. casualitas.]

1. That which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency. Losses that befall them by mere casualty. Sir W. Raleigh.

2. Any injury of the body from accident; hence, death, or other misfortune, occasioned by an accident; as, an unhappy casualty.

3. pl. (Mil. & Naval)

Definition: Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion. Casualty ward, A ward in a hospital devoted to the treatment of injuries received by accident.

Syn.

– Accident; contingency; fortuity; misfortune.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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