Noun

value of some business.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}

(legal) A legal that deals with remedies other than (l) relief, such as injunctions, divorces and similar actions.

* Macaulay

Equity had been gradually shaping itself into a refined science which no human faculties could master without long and intense application.

(legal) of property minus liens or other (l).

(legal) An equitable claim; an equity of redemption.

an equity''' to a settlement, or wife's '''equity , etc.

* Kent

I consider the wife's equity to be too well settled to be shaken.

(accounting) Ownership interest in a company as determined by subtracting liabilities from (l).

Justice, impartiality or fairness.

* Tillotson

Christianity secures both the private interests of men and the public peace, enforcing all justice and equity .

Noun

(es)

an instance of losing, such as a defeat

The match ended in their first loss of the season.

The result of an alteration in a function or characteristic of the body, or of its previous integrity.

Loss of an arm ; loss of weight ; loss of cognitive functions ; loss of appetite.

the hurtful condition of having lost something or someone

We mourn his loss .

(in the plural) casualties, especially physically eliminated victims of violent conflict

The battle was won, but losses were great.

(financial) the sum an entity loses on balance

''The sum of expenditures and taxes minus total income is a loss , when this difference is positive.

destruction, ruin

''It was a terrible crash: both cars were total losses

(engineering) electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work

The inefficiency of many old-fashioned power plants exceeds 60% loss''' before the subsequent ' losses during transport over the grid