Usually means: Miss opportunity, suffer disadvantageous consequences.
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  1. lose out: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. lose out: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lose out: Collins English Dictionary
  4. lose-out: Wordnik
  5. lose out: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. lose out: Wiktionary
  7. lose out: Dictionary.com
  8. lose out: Dictionary/thesaurus

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lose out)

▸ verb:  To be at a disadvantage.
▸ verb:  (with 'to') To be defeated (by).

Similar:
lose ground, come off second best, disadvantage, lose, edge out, trail, handicap, weigh against, drop behind, disavail, more...

Opposite:
win, succeed, gain, triumph

Types:
be deprived of, be without, be lacking, be missing, more...

Phrases:
lose out on, more...

Adjectives:
worst, outland, own, subject, go, fade, levant, upstage, foist, getaway, offn

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Similar:
lose ground, come off second best, disadvantage, lose, edge out, trail, handicap, weigh against, drop behind, disavail, more...

Opposite:
win, succeed, gain, triumph

Types:
be deprived of, be without, be lacking, be missing, more...

Phrases:
lose out on, more...

Adjectives:
worst, outland, own, subject, go, fade, levant, upstage, foist, getaway, offn



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