casualty

Etymology
From casual, from, from and , from  (English ), from. Originally meaning “a chance event” (compare, as in “casual encounter”), it developed a negative meaning as “an unfortunate event”, especially the loss of a person.

Noun

 * 1) Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster.
 * 2) * 1756,, “The Life of Sir Thomas Browne” in , , 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, p. xx,
 * The course of his education was like that of others, such as put him little in the way of extraordinary casualties.
 * 1) A person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence.
 * 2)  Specifically, a person who has been killed (not only injured) due to an accident or through an act of violence; a fatality.
 * 3)  A person in military service who becomes unavailable for duty, for any reason (notably death, injury, illness, capture, or desertion).
 * : the accident and emergency department of a hospital providing immediate treatment.
 * 1) An incidental charge or payment.
 * 2) Someone or something adversely affected by a decision, event or situation.
 * 3)  Chance nature; randomness.
 * , NYRB 2001, vol.1, p.327-8:
 * The non-necessary [causes] follow; of which, saith Fuchsius, no art can be made, by reason of their uncertainty, casualty, and multitude
 * 1)  Chance nature; randomness.
 * , NYRB 2001, vol.1, p.327-8:
 * The non-necessary [causes] follow; of which, saith Fuchsius, no art can be made, by reason of their uncertainty, casualty, and multitude

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

Synonyms

 * , ; see also Thesaurus:luck
 * / emergency room / emergency department / emergency ward / E. R./E.R./ER
 * / casualty ward
 * / A&E
 * / A&E

Translations

 * Armenian: դժբախտ պատահար
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, , , ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Malayalam: ,
 * Polish: ofiary, straty
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:, ,


 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:, , զոհ կամ վիրավոր
 * Belarusian: пацярпе́лы,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 傷亡者, 伤亡者 (shāngwáng zhě), 死傷者, 死伤者 (sǐshāng zhě), 死傷人數, 死伤人数 (sǐshāng rénshù)
 * Czech:
 * Danish: tilskadekommet,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: დაშავებული, დაჭრილი, მოკლული
 * German:, , , Verunglückter, , , , , , ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:,  , ,
 * Icelandic: mannfall
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
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 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Maori: pūkeko, kaiākiko,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: offer
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, (usually plural),
 * Serbo-Croatian:, ,
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: olycksoffer,
 * Tarifit: aniyzum
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: потерпі́лий, же́ртва, офі́ра, постражда́лий, ушко́джений


 * Basque: urgentziak, larrialdiak
 * Bulgarian: спешно отделение
 * Catalan:
 * Danish:, traumecenter
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * Galician: urxencias
 * German: ,
 * Greek: επείγοντα περαστικά, τμήμα επειγόντων περαστικών
 * Malayalam: അത്യാഹിത വിഭാഗം
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: emergências, urgências,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: