loss | the act of losing someone or something, everyone expected him to win so his loss was a shock |
drawing card loss leader leader | a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers |
loss deprivation | the disadvantage that results from losing something, his loss of credibility led to his resignation, losing him is no great deprivation |
somatotropin somatotrophin somatotropic hormone somatotrophic hormone STH human growth hormone growth hormone | a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland, promotes growth in humans |
amnesia memory loss blackout | partial or total loss of memory, he has a total blackout for events of the evening |
stop order stop-loss order | an order to a broker to sell (buy) when the price of a security falls (rises) to a designated level |
loss | the experience of losing a loved one, he sympathized on the loss of their grandfather |
emergence outgrowth growth | the gradual beginning or coming forth, figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece |
passing loss departure exit expiration going release | euphemistic expressions for death, thousands mourned his passing |
personnel casualty loss | military personnel lost by death or capture |
rapid climb rapid growth zoom | a rapid rise |
loss of consciousness | the occurrence of a loss of the ability to perceive and respond |
growth industry | an industry that is growing rapidly |
growth | vegetation that has grown, a growth of trees, the only growth was some salt grass |
growth | something grown or growing, a growth of hair |
annual ring growth ring | an annual formation of wood in plants as they grow |
old growth virgin forest | forest or woodland having a mature or overly mature ecosystem more or less uninfluenced by human activity |
second growth | a second growth of trees covering an area where the original stand was destroyed by fire or cutting |
paper loss | an unrealized loss on an investment calculated by subtracting the current market price from the investor's cost |
capital loss | the amount by which the purchase price of an asset exceeds the selling price, the loss is realized when the asset is sold |
loss red ink red | the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue, the company operated at a loss last year, the company operated in the red last year |
loss | something that is lost, the car was a total loss, loss of livestock left the rancher bankrupt |
financial loss | loss of money or decrease in financial value |
growth stock | stock of a corporation that has had faster than average gains in earnings and is expected to continue to |
income statement earnings report operating statement profit-and-loss statement | a financial statement that gives operating results for a specific period |
profit and loss profit and loss account | an account compiled at the end of an accounting period to show gross and net profit or loss |
economic growth | steady growth in the productive capacity of the economy (and so a growth of national income) |
growth growing maturation development ontogeny ontogenesis | (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically, a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level, he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children |
growth | a progression from simpler to more complex forms, the growth of culture |
increase increment growth | a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important, the increase in unemployment, the growth of population |
loss | gradual decline in amount or activity, weight loss, a serious loss of business |
population growth | increase in the number of people who inhabit a territory or state |
loss ratio | the ratio of the annual claims paid by an insurance company to the premiums received |
type I diabetes insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus IDDM juvenile-onset diabetes juvenile diabetes growth-onset diabetes ketosis-prone diabetes ketoacidosis-prone diabetes autoimmune diabetes | severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset, characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss and episodic ketoacidosis, diet and insulin injections are required to control the disease |
growth | (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor) |
arrested development fixation infantile fixation regression | an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely |
deafness hearing loss | partial or complete loss of hearing |
conductive hearing loss conduction deafness middle-ear deafness | hearing loss due to problems with the bones of the middle ear |
sensorineural hearing loss nerve deafness | hearing loss due to failure of the auditory nerve |
growth factor | a protein that is involved in cell differentiation and growth |
nerve growth factor NGF | a protein that is involved in the growth of peripheral nerve cells |
phytohormone plant hormone growth regulator | (botany) a plant product that acts like a hormone |
growth hormoneeleasing factor GHRF | a releasing factor that accelerates the secretion of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary body |
growth rate rate of growth | the rate of increase in size per unit time |
lose turn a loss | fail to make money in a business, make a loss or fail to profit, I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment!, The company turned a loss after the first year |
at a loss(p) nonplused nonplussed puzzled | filled with bewilderment, at a loss to understand those remarks, puzzled that she left without saying goodbye |
at a loss | below cost, sold the car at a loss |