0 to no longer have something because you do not know where it is: --
Banks will lose millions of pounds because of new legislation.
Four million hours were lost last year through stress-related illnesses.
He's losing his hair.
to lose confidence/faith
At least 600 staff will lose their jobs if the factory closes.
I've lost my ticket.
1 to fail to succeed in a game, competition, etc.: --
3 to no longer have something, because it has been taken away from you, either by accident or purposely: --
4 to fail to succeed in a game or competition: --
5 to not maintain or no longer have control over a quality or ability: --
They lost virtually all their cattle and were left with the choice of abandoning the lobola system or finding a new lobola currency.
Ultimately, though, corpus-based empiricism must not lose touch with the theoretical linguistic tradition in the study of linguistic change.
There is empirical support for the ' use it or lose it ' mechanism for both the structural and the functional aspects of social relations.
But if coherence leads to not treating people as equals, as we argue, then local coherence loses its normative force.
Those for pure loss systems include basically the probability for a new arrival to be lost.
If the mirroring is too accurate, the perception itself can become a source of fear, and it loses its symbolic potential.
But there is a danger that the basic weaknesses of these approaches get lost in a daze of technical sophistication.
The editors have striven to give the floor to competing points of view without losing technical focus.
