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• loss — is a generic and relative term. It signifies the act of losing or the thing lost; it is not a word of limited, hard and fast meaning and has been held synonymous with, or equivalent to, damage , damages , deprivation , detriment , injury , and… …   Black's law dictionary

• loss — is a generic and relative term. It signifies the act of losing or the thing lost; it is not a word of limited, hard and fast meaning and has been held synonymous with, or equivalent to, damage , damages , deprivation , detriment , injury , and… …   Black's law dictionary

• Shrinkage — has multiple meanings, depending on the context.* Shrinkage (accounting) the loss of products * Shrinkage (statistics) a technique to improve an estimator * Shrinkage (casting) a casting defect brought about by the reduction in volume of the cast …   Wikipedia

• shrinkage — [shriŋ′kij] n. 1. the act or process of shrinking; contraction in size, as of a fabric in washing 2. decrease in value; depreciation 3. the total loss in weight of livestock from the time of shipment to the final processing as meat 4. the amount… …   English World dictionary

• loss — [n] misfortune, deficit; something misplaced or lost accident, bad luck, bereavement, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, cost, damage, death, debit, debt, defeat, deficiency, depletion, deprivation, destitution, destruction, detriment,… …   New thesaurus

• Shrinkage (accounting) — In financial accounting the term inventory shrinkage (sometimes truncated to shrink) is the loss of products between point of manufacture or purchase from supplier and point of sale. The total shrink percentage of the retail industry in the… …   Wikipedia

• shrinkage — Discrepancy between a firm s actual inventory and its recorded inventory due to theft, deterioration, loss, or clerical problems. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * shrinkage shrink‧age [ˈʆrɪŋkɪdʒ] noun 1. [countable, uncountable] the act of… …   Financial and business terms

• shrinkage — noun Date: 1800 1. the act or process of shrinking 2. a. the loss in weight of livestock during shipment and in the process of preparing the meat for consumption b. the loss of goods especially by theft < inventory shrinkage > 3. the amount lost… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Shrinkage — The loss of inventory that can be attributed to factors including employee theft, shoplifting, administrative error, vendor fraud, damage in transit or in store and cashier errors that benefit the customer. Shrinkage is the difference between… …   Investment dictionary

• shrinkage — noun a) The act of shrinking, or the proportion by which something shrinks. Do women know about shrinkage? b) The loss of merchandise through theft. This is why guys experience shrinkage after theyve been swimming …   Wiktionary

• loss — Synonyms and related words: ablation, annihilation, attrition, bankruptcy, bereavement, breakage, breakdown, collapse, confusion, consumption, corrosion, crack up, crippling, damage, death, decrement, defeat, deliquescence, demise, denial,… …   Moby Thesaurus