Usually means: Failure to win or succeed.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. loses: Merriam-Webster
  2. loses: Collins English Dictionary
  3. loses: Vocabulary.com
  4. Loses, loses: Wordnik
  5. loses: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. loses: Wiktionary
  7. loses: Dictionary.com
  8. loses: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. loses: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. loses: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. loses: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. loses: Idioms

(Note: See lose as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (lose)

verb:  (transitive) To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability.
verb:  (transitive) To have (an organ) removed from one's body, especially by accident.
verb:  (transitive) To shed (weight).
verb:  (transitive) To experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend).
verb:  (transitive) To pay or owe (some wager) due from an unsuccessful bet or gamble.
verb:  (transitive) To be deprived of (some right or privileged access to something).
verb:  To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to find; to go astray from.
verb:  (transitive) To fail to win (a game, competition, trial, etc).
verb:  (transitive) To be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (somebody) to be unable to follow or trace one any longer.
verb:  (transitive) To cease exhibiting; to overcome (a behavior or emotion).
verb:  (transitive, informal) To shed, remove, discard, or eliminate.
verb:  Of a clock, to run slower than expected.
verb:  (ditransitive) To cause (someone) the loss of something; to deprive of.
verb:  To fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss.
noun:  A surname from German.
noun:  Alternative form of loos (“praise; fame; reputation”). [(obsolete) Praise; fame; reputation.]
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