losings

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los·ing

(lo͞o′zĭng)

adj.

1. Failing to win, as in a sport or game: a losing team; a losing lottery ticket.

2. Of or relating to one that fails to win: a losing season; a losing battle.

1. The act of one that loses; loss.

2. often losings Something lost, such as money at gambling.

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losings

(ˈluːzɪŋz)

pl n

(Card Games) losses, esp money lost in gambling

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losings - something lost (especially money lost at gambling)

losses

financial loss - loss of money or decrease in financial value

winnings, profits, win - something won (especially money)

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I too am suffering, and shall suffer; I am losing what I prized above everything--I am losing my good name and my son.

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To this he replied that a person who did not possess a groat must surely be rather badly off; to which Thedora retorted that I could always either live by the labour of my hands or marry--that it was not so much a question of my losing posts as of my losing my happiness, the ruin of which had led almost to my death.

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She received her fifteen sous with humble thankfulness, in constant apprehension of losing even that miserable pittance.

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