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casualty English

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casualty

A casualty is a person who has been hurt, even killed, in an accident, or an act of violence. The only casualty in the bus crash was an old man who broke his arm. The casualty department of a hospital is where people who have been hurt are first taken for medical treatment. Casualty was crowded with injured people after the accident.

casualty

a decrease of military personnel or equipment someone injured or killed in an accident someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement (= fatal accident) an accident that causes someone to die

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Simple sentences

The first casualty of every war is the truth.
In war, truth is the first casualty.

Movie subtitles

One serious casualty, medics in attendance.
Dr Walker will deal with casualty.
Then we need casualty cleared completely.
Casualty lists!
So is this, an air raid casualty that's terribly.
He ought to look at a casualty list.
That's how you lost Bull Run, Yankee: Letting the enemy know your casualty.
Aren't you supposed to be doing casualty drill on the two pounder?
There was only one casualty.
I'm from casualty.
Meantime, I'll put Major Martin in the casualty lists.
Casualty here!
I thought you'd want the casualty report.
There's a casualty clearing station over there behind the dunes.
I'm with the Atlantic Casualty Company. Tri-States Oil carries a group policy with us on its employees. - Lunn worked for them.
There's a quarter of a million dollars of Atlantic Casualty money that's never been recovered.
Am I still on this case or have I quit Atlantic Casualty?
Owing to your splendid efforts, the basic rate of the Atlantic Casualty Company as of 1 947. will probably drop one-tenth of a cent.
Evening. I'm from casualty.
I was the first one out of the LST. Brought in all my men without a casualty.
No. - I thought you'd want the casualty report.
Casualty report.
I guess you might say i'm the last casualty of the civil war.
And if a man's life were held cheaper than grass it was considered a casualty of war, not a crime.
Casualty report?
Casualty report on the PT boats, Rock.
The worst casualty is that cookwagon.
Casualty lists! Casualty lists!
I'm to be a casualty of the war?
I'M AFRAID THERE'S BEEN A CASUALTY.
With casualty lists.
But I daresay a great many of them will come around to my way of thinking when the war drags on, and the casualty rates go up.
Your department has developed a remarkably high casualty rate.
Casualty, captain.
There's a real casualty there.
He is busy coordinating casualty lists.
He'll have more casualty lists than he knows what to do with if he doesn't get in here and talk to me.
I, too, have been declared a casualty.
You will be taken immediately to one of our casualty stations so that your deaths may be recorded.

News and current affairs

The first casualty would be whatever small scope remains for international policy coordination.
In part, this reflects the rising casualty rate, with more than 2,100 American soldiers killed thus far.
We say that Mary died in a car accident, not that she was a casualty of the Road Traffic Act.
In country after country, one casualty of the ongoing debate over spending, taxes, deficits, and debt has been efforts to make government more effective and efficient.
Above all, the ongoing six-party talks (China, the US, Japan, Russia, South Korea, and North Korea) that have sought to bring North Korea's nuclear program to an end must not become a casualty of the missile launch.
One casualty of that brutal enterprise, apart from the roughly 100,000 Iraqis who have died and the millions more who have become refugees, is trust in the US as a force for good.
Indeed, the most serious casualty of the current political climate in France is Sarkozy's reform agenda.
In Iraq, after years of declining sectarian violence, the casualty figures are up again, in part owing to the war in neighboring Syria.
Another casualty of neo-conservative hubris might be the idea of spreading democracy itself.
One casualty of such debates has been the myth that water is free.
LONDON - Public trust in financial institutions, and in the authorities that are supposed to regulate them, was an early casualty of the financial crisis.
With these casualty figures, one would think that gun-control laws would be a much higher national priority in America than the far more loudly hyped fight against terrorism.
Greece was the most recent casualty, but it is unlikely to be the last.
Privatized pension funds--created in 1994 as a result of a Social Security reform based on individual accounts vested in bonds and equities--were one casualty.
The blessings of the Internet are many, but one casualty of our segmentation into online subcultures is the loss of a common focal point.
In Kosovo restricting intervention to aerial bombardment made this strategy a total success: NATO forces suffered not a single casualty in combat, but approximately 300 Kosovar, 209 Serb and 3 Chinese civilians were killed.
The first casualty will most likely be price stability.
Discipline disappeared at the national level in many countries; Greece was the most recent casualty, but it is unlikely to be the last.

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