"lose ground" meaning in English

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      "form": "lost ground",
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      "form": "lost ground",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "word": "gain ground"
        }
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        {
          "text": "He lost ground in his career due to his illness.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "They are losing ground to foreign competitors every year.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman:",
          "text": "The pre-match mantra from the Scotland camp may have been of it not being a “must win” game but that fooled no-one, Poland’s win in Georgia earlier last night simply crystallised how vital it was for the Scots not to lose any more ground at this stage of an intensely competitive campaign.",
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        "To suffer loss or disadvantage; to experience a setback."
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          "loss",
          "loss"
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        [
          "disadvantage",
          "disadvantage"
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        [
          "setback",
          "setback"
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        "(idiomatic) To suffer loss or disadvantage; to experience a setback."
      ],
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          "word": "give ground"
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        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "terrein verliezen"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "menettää jalansijaa"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "perdre du terrain"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "en perte de vitesse"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "an Boden verlieren"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "cháno édafos",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "χάνω έδαφος"
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
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          "word": "teret veszít"
        },
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          "code": "hu",
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          "word": "tért veszít"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
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          "word": "perdere terreno"
        },
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          "code": "pl",
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            "imperfective"
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          "word": "tracić przewagę"
        },
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            "perfective"
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          "word": "stracić przewagę"
        },
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          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "pierde teren"
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  "word": "lose ground"
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    {
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      "form": "lost ground",
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      "word": "give ground"
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          "text": "He lost ground in his career due to his illness.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "They are losing ground to foreign competitors every year.",
          "type": "example"
        },
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          "ref": "2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman:",
          "text": "The pre-match mantra from the Scotland camp may have been of it not being a “must win” game but that fooled no-one, Poland’s win in Georgia earlier last night simply crystallised how vital it was for the Scots not to lose any more ground at this stage of an intensely competitive campaign.",
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          "disadvantage",
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        "(idiomatic) To suffer loss or disadvantage; to experience a setback."
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      "code": "nl",
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      "word": "terrein verliezen"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
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      "word": "menettää jalansijaa"
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      "word": "perdre du terrain"
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      "word": "en perte de vitesse"
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      "word": "χάνω έδαφος"
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      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "teret veszít"
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      "word": "tért veszít"
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      "word": "perdere terreno"
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  "word": "lose ground"
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