Usually means: Victim of accident, war, disaster.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. casualty: Merriam-Webster
  2. casualty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. casualty: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. casualty: Collins English Dictionary
  5. casualty: Vocabulary.com
  6. Casualty, casualty: Wordnik
  7. casualty: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. casualty: Wiktionary
  9. casualty: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. casualty: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. casualty: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. casualty: Dictionary.com
  13. casualty: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Casualty (TV series), Casualty (disambiguation), Casualty (person), Casualty (series Casualty+++(series+++1)), Casualty (series 3), Casualty (series 5), Casualty (series 6), Casualty (series 7), Casualty (series 8), Casualty (series 9), Casualty (television), Casualty: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Casualty: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. casualty: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. casualty: Rhymezone
  18. casualty: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. casualty: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. casualty: FreeDictionary.org
  21. casualty: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. casualty: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. casualty: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Television (No longer online)

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. casualty: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. casualty: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. casualty: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Casualty (person), casualty: Legal dictionary
  7. Casualty: Financial dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. casualty: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. casualty: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Casualty: UK Medical Acronyms
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. casualty: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Army Technology Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. casualty, casualty: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Casualty, The Casualty: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See casualties as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster.
noun:  A person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence.
noun:  (proscribed) Specifically, a person who has been killed (not only injured) due to an accident or through an act of violence; a fatality.
noun:  (military) A person in military service who becomes unavailable for duty, for any reason (notably death, injury, illness, capture, or desertion).
noun:  An incidental charge or payment.
noun:  Someone or something adversely affected by a decision, event or situation.
noun:  (obsolete) Chance nature; randomness.
noun:  (British) Clipping of casualty department: the accident and emergency department of a hospital providing immediate treatment. [(British) (also casualty ward) the department of a hospital providing immediate treatment for emergency cases.]

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