PERSONNEL CASUALTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does personnel casualty mean? 

• PERSONNEL CASUALTY (noun)
  The noun PERSONNEL CASUALTY has 1 sense:

1. military personnel lost by death or capture

  Familiarity information: PERSONNEL CASUALTY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERSONNEL CASUALTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Military personnel lost by death or capture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

loss; personnel casualty

Hypernyms ("personnel casualty" is a kind of...):

casualty (a decrease of military personnel or equipment)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "personnel casualty"):

combat injury; injury; wound (a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat)

sacrifice (personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective))