"total loss" meaning in All languages combined

See total loss on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: total losses [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} total loss (plural total losses)
  1. (accounting) An insured item of which the entire value is written off. Categories (topical): Accounting Synonyms: writeoff, write-off
    Sense id: en-total_loss-en-noun-1FDmcTHb Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 53 47 Topics: accounting, business, finance
  2. (insurance) An insured item that is written off when it is beyond repair, or when the cost of repair exceeds the insured value.
    Sense id: en-total_loss-en-noun-6u7sIMSx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 53 47 Topics: business, insurance
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms (to cause total loss): total [verb] Translations (insured item written off): tuhoutunut [adjective] (Finnish), totaltap [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), totaltap [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), perda total [feminine] (Portuguese)
Disambiguation of 'to cause total loss': 54 46 Disambiguation of 'insured item written off': 50 50

Inflected forms

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        "An insured item of which the entire value is written off."
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        "(accounting) An insured item of which the entire value is written off."
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          "text": "The ship was declared a constructive total loss."
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          "text": "Intelligence has been received at Hong Kong of the total loss of the ship Libelle while on a voyage to that port from San Francisco, having on board a valuable cargo and specie to the extent of £76,000 in dollars, and a number of passengers, among whom were Madame Anna Bishop, Miss Phelan, Mr. M. Schrutz, and Mr. Charles Lascelles, of the English Opera Company, who, with other artists, were on a musical tour. The ship was cast away on the night of the 4th of March, on an uninhabited and dangerous reef called Wake Island, in the China Seas.",
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      "sense": "insured item written off",
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "insured item written off",
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        "feminine"
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      "word": "perda total"
    }
  ],
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}

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