Casualty ward

Definition

casualty /'kæʒuǝlti/ n ၁။ စစ္အတြင္း (သို႔) မေတာ္တဆ ျဖစ္မႈ ေၾကာင့္ ေသေက်၊ ဒဏ္ရာရသူ။ Heavy casualties were reported (ie It was reported that many people had been killed) in the fighting. ❍ ( fig ) Mr Willis was the first casualty of the firm's cut-backs (ie the first to lose his job because of them). ❍ a casualty list. ၂။ မေတာ္တဆ ထိခိုက္ ပ်က္စီးေသာ၊ ေပ်ာက္ဆံုးေသာအရာ။ The cottage was a casualty of the forest fire. ၃။ (also casualty ward , casualty department , US emergency room ) (မေတာ္တဆထိခိုက္သူမ်ားအတြက္) အေရးေပၚလူနာခန္း။ After the crash she was rushed to casualty in an ambulance.

Examples

1. There were no reports of casualties from the attack.
2. [heavy casualties] : A small group of rebels inflicted heavy casualties (=many people injured or killed) on the government forces.
3. [casualty of] : Education has again been a casualty of government spending cuts.
4. I hear that they’ve taken him to casualty.