{
    "term": "casualty",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a person who is killed or injured in war or in an accident",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Our primary objective is reducing road casualties."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Both sides had suffered **heavy casualties** *(= many people had been killed)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Our division suffered only light casualties."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The guerrillas inflicted heavy casualties on the local population."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["War and conflict"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["heavy", "high", "serious"],
                "verb + casualty": ["cause", "inflict", "incur"],
                "casualty + noun": ["count", "figures", "list"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a person who suffers or a thing that is destroyed when something else takes place",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She became a casualty of the reduction in part-time work *(= she lost her job)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Small shops have been a casualty of the recession."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They say that truth is the first casualty of war."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their relationship became a casualty of war."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The main casualty of this scandal will be the minister's reputation."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "victim",
            "topics": ["War and conflict"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "the part of a hospital where people who need immediate treatment are taken",
            "labels": "(all British English)North American English",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The victims were rushed to casualty."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We waited in casualty until a doctor could see us."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He works as a doctor in casualty."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Healthcare"],
            "collocations": {
                "verb + casualty": [
                    "be admitted to",
                    "rush somebody to",
                    "take somebody to"
                ],
                "casualty + noun": ["department", "unit", "ward"],
                "preposition": ["in casualty"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkæʒuəlti/",
                "audio": "ca/casualty/casualty__gb_5.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkæʒuəlti/",
                "audio": "ca/casualty/casualty__us_2_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘chance, a chance occurrence’): from medieval Latin casualitas, from casualis, from casus ‘fall’, on the pattern of words such as penalty."
}