Word for the day: casualty

casualty |ˈkaʒjʊəlti, -zj-|                                             *casualidad (en Español)



DEFINITION
noun ( pl. casualties )
a person killed or injured in a war or accident: the shelling caused thousands of civilian casualties.• a person or thing badly affected by an event or situation: the building industry has been one of the casualties of the recession.• Brit.the casualty department of a hospital: he went to casualty to have a cut stitched.• (chiefly in insurance) an accident or disaster.

ORIGIN Late Middle English (in the sense‘chance, a chance occurrence’): frommedieval Latin casualitas, from casualis (seecasual), on the pattern of words such aspenalty .

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