The phrase "acceptable loss" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in contexts where a certain level of loss is deemed tolerable or justifiable in pursuit of a larger goal or objective.
Example: "In military operations, some commanders may consider civilian casualties as an acceptable loss in order to achieve strategic objectives."
Alternatives: "tolerable loss" or "justifiable loss".
(Viking) 22. ACCEPTABLE LOSS, by Anne Perry.
A shame, yes, but in the grand scheme of things an acceptable loss.
He said that this would leave 55 factories open "subject to satisfactory progress" towards an "acceptable loss per disabled employee".
(Mireau is a cousin to Sterling Heyden's Brigadier General Jack D Ripper in Dr Strangelove: calculating percentages of acceptable loss is something that happens in both films).
Of course, the entire premise of such a complacent idea is that Iran is run by a rational group of political leaders whose extreme statements, including its objective of "wiping Israel off the map," even if it meant an acceptable loss of the lives of its own citizens to a retaliatory response, should not be taken at face value.
The investigation did not exclude the possibility that Israeli forces were responding to fire from an armed Palestinian group, as Israel claimed, but said that this and similar attacks "cannot meet the test of what a reasonable commander would have determined to be an acceptable loss of civilian life for the military advantage sought".
ES supply should be assessed relative to the demand for the service, which can be measured using a target-based approach, through current or projected use of the service or its products, through demonstrated need for the service (e.g., historical impacts of storms) or through meeting an accepted minimum standard (e.g., acceptable losses due to storm damage).
"Then they decide on acceptable losses.
We seem to fall into the acceptable losses".
And did so, in my judgment, with acceptable losses to truth and history.
"As far as I can tell, most people feel the losses we're sustaining are acceptable losses until something happens to someone they know.
