Total Loss Definition

noun
An insurance contract concept that is said to exist if property is destroyed to the extent as to be no longer useful for the purpose for which it was intended, or that renders it useless and of no value to its owner.
Webster's New World Law
(accounting) An insured item of which the entire value is written off.
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Noun

Singular:
total loss
Plural:
total losses

Total Loss Sentence Examples

  • In total loss of her temper, she marched over and stomped on the phone, grinding it under her boot heel.

  • By the end of the third year The New Yorker had reached a circulation of 9500 copies, and had sustained a total loss of $7000.

  • The alfalfa crop suffered particularly, the total loss being about $300,000.

  • The total loss of the Allies' military forces in the eight months' contest mounted up to 130,000 killed, wounded and missing.

  • The total loss of the English is stated at thirteen men-at-arms (including the duke of York, grandson of Edward III.) and about loo of the foot.

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