The word "losses" is correct and usable in written English.
It is commonly used as a noun to refer to something that has been damaged, destroyed, or given away. For example, "The company reported a $200 million loss in their quarterly earnings report due to unexpected weather-related losses."
Brengle's run to the semi-finals on the indoor clay in Stuttgart was a shocker; her losses this spring to Serena Williams, Keys, Petkovic and Kerber rather less so.
The OECD was a supporter of workers in southern European countries taking a hit to their wage packets and argues that "wage adjustments have played an important role in helping the labour market weather the deep cyclical downturn, reducing job losses in the downturn and promoting employment growth in the recovery".
Add up Primark growth, margins in Grocery getting to 10%, returns on recent investments and reversing Chinese/Australian losses, and forecasts can get out of hand.
JP Morgan estimated it might have to take as much as $54bn of losses on mortgages, which it managed to avoid.
Russia's richest man, Oleg Deripaska, admitted in an interview with the Wall Street Journal earlier this month that he expected his losses to be "in the billions".
Some jobs will go in natural wastage, not filling vacancies and voluntary redundancy, however, we cannot escape the fact that some losses will be frontline posts that, given a choice, councils would not want to see go.
He was expected to advocate some scaling-back of the investment banking division even before the losses but is resisting calls from some Swiss politicians to break up the bank to safeguard its private banking division.
To salt their wounds, a puckish figure named Igor Matovič soaked up most of the right's losses, leading his ragtag Ordinary People party to its first ever berth in parliament.
Lamb highlighted two major reef-building coral species in the Caribbean that have been classified as endangered after disease swept across the region and led to coral cover losses of up to 95%.
Baird said the election victory had handed the Coalition a mandate to "make NSW great" and blamed the seat losses on a scare campaign by Labor, vowing to win them back at the next election.
It also spun out Bravia TV, with losses of £4.6bn in nine years.
