total losses
All assets destroyed
Total losses refers to assets—typically vehicles or property—damaged beyond economical repair.
Insurance companies declare something a total loss when repair costs exceed the item's value: The adjuster declared her car a total loss after the accident.
The plural form often appears in financial reports tallying completely destroyed or written-off assets.
Severe widespread destruction
- rubbleBroken building fragments
- ruinsDecayed structural remains
- wreckageDestroyed remains of something
- demolitionDeliberate structural destruction
obliteration · annihilation · catastrophe · disaster · aftermath · carnage · desolation · razed
Statement of ownership or truth
- write-offRecorded value reduction
- adjusterOne who calibrates
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
- salvageRecovering damaged goods
underwriter · premium · coverage · policy · payout · reimbursement · deductible · valuation
Legal status when insolvent
- insolvencyInability to pay debts
- liquidationSelling assets for cash
- defaultPreset standard option
- foreclosureLender seizes mortgaged property
debt · deficit · write-down · impairment · worthless · unrecoverable · bad debt · charge-off
Those killed or wounded
- fatalitiesLosses of life
- killed in actionDied during combat operations
- destroyedMade to cease existing
- annihilatedCompletely destroyed, nothing remaining
decimated · wiped out · eliminated · attrition · body count · fallen · MIA · wounded
devastation
Severe widespread destruction
- rubbleBroken building fragments
- ruinsDecayed structural remains
- wreckageDestroyed remains of something
demolition · obliteration · annihilation · catastrophe · disaster · aftermath · carnage · desolation · razed · leveled
claim
Statement of ownership or truth
- write-offRecorded value reduction
- adjusterOne who calibrates
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
salvage · underwriter · premium · coverage · policy · payout · reimbursement · deductible · valuation · depreciation
bankruptcy
Legal status when insolvent
- insolvencyInability to pay debts
- liquidationSelling assets for cash
- defaultPreset standard option
foreclosure · debt · deficit · write-down · impairment · worthless · unrecoverable · bad debt · charge-off · portfolio
casualties
Those killed or wounded
- fatalitiesLosses of life
- killed in actionDied during combat operations
- destroyedMade to cease existing
annihilated · decimated · wiped out · eliminated · attrition · body count · fallen · MIA · wounded · battalion
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