1A person killed or injured in a war or accident.

1. 1.1 A person or thing badly affected by an event or situation.
   〈喻〉（事件或情况的）受害者，牺牲品
   the building industry has been one of the casualties of the recession

   建筑业已经成为经济衰退的受害者之一。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • But the dream of a new generation of nuclear power may prove to be the real casualty of last week's events.
   • She was an early casualty of what is now being seen as a wasted generation.
   • A prize portfolio could mean a head start in the race, but those overlooked or given poisoned chalices would be early casualties.
   • For Einstein and children like him, confidence is an early casualty.
   • A big, bald-headed dude was passed out on the bunk above, an early casualty of beer and Valium.
   • The first casualties of this disastrous policy have been Asian voters, particularly women.
   • The first casualty of this double taxation was luxury glass, the city's traditional export.
   • Major charities wanted to know how children, often the worst casualties of poverty, saw their own situations.
   • Faculty travel budgets and money for new faculty appointments are often early casualties.
   • In anxious times, the free exchange of ideas is an early casualty.
   • The first casualty of a disaster is always communication.
   • Civil liberties are always early and intended casualties of wars - both actual or metaphoric.
   • Hopefully this cocoon of self-deception will be among the early casualties of the campaign.
   • My voice was an early casualty in the Change, all I could manage was a watery gurgle.
   • It's sad, but current events and an awareness of them has been a casualty of my current lifestyle.
   • But another early casualty is conscience, routinely smothered in the national media echo chamber.
   • The egg was an early casualty of the cholesterol war.
   • The date and location of the forum were a poignant reminder to many of those present of the impact of foot and mouth: the Great Yorkshire Show was the biggest event to fall casualty to the disease.
   • Educated at Westminster and Oriel College, Oxford, he was an early casualty of the Oxford movement.

   Synonyms

   victim, sufferer, loser, loss
2. 1.2British The department of a hospital providing immediate treatment for emergency cases.
   he went to casualty to have a cut stitched

   他去急诊室把伤口缝合。

   North American term emergency room

   Example sentencesExamples

   • She was taken by ambulance to casualty at Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, after she lost consciousness at home at about 7pm.
   • I got another insight into how hard nurses work from witnessing the transfer of a patient from casualty to a hospital in Dublin.
   • In one case, a patient was sent away from casualty, complaining of stomach pain, without a proper examination and told to see his GP if the symptoms persisted.
   • She was treated in casualty and she returned home.
   • He was admitted to casualty in the Mater hospital but released shortly afterwards.
   • John thought it was just a particularly bad headache, but when he went to work the next morning his colleagues sent him straight to casualty at Royal Oldham Hospital.
   • The crackdown on long waits has been dogged by allegations that ambulance staff are deliberately delaying taking patients into casualty until the hospital is ready for them.
   • In the second case, a music teacher had to go to casualty in two separate hospitals on Christmas Day and Boxing Day 1993 after developing problems with his dressing.
   • The police and hospital link-up is thought to be the first in the country, and will see cameras in casualty and the hospital's car park wired to the police station.
3. 1.3 (chiefly in insurance) an accident or disaster.
   事故，不幸，灾难（主要用于保险中）
   the Insurers acquire all the Policyholder's rights in respect of the casualty which caused the loss

   保险公司获得与造成损失的事故有关的投保人的一切真实情况。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Had the glass been in place, the casualty would not have occurred.
   • Where a policy provides cover against one of two or more concurrent causes of a casualty, a claim will lie under the policy provided that there is no relevant exclusion.
   • In the present case the retainer is said to be for the purpose of investigating and advising on the casualty.
   • For wool to get wet in the rain is a casualty, though not a grave one; it is not a thing intended but is accidental; it is something which injures the wool from without; it does not develop from within.
   • Examples are: health problems, unemployment, damage to the home due to a casualty or disaster, and other reasons.
   • Thus if the second casualty is due to an excepted peril, the rule of merger which applied in the case of an unrepaired partial loss to defeat the claim has no application.
   • The centre of gravity was so close to the tipping line that a minor force would cause the casualty.
   • The term ‘perils of the sea’ refers only to fortuitous accidents or casualties of the seas.
   • It is hardly surprising in those circumstances that the House of Lords held that the shipowning company could not say that the casualty had occurred without its actual fault and privity.
   • That is this case because the obligation to cover arose at the time of the casualty and it is that which under the approach in Albion gives rise to the double insurance situation.