combat casualty

1. 1.

   loss of military equipment in battle

   Synonymsbattle damage

   Broaderdamage

   military

Questions about combat casualty

What does combat casualty mean?

combat casualty means "loss of military equipment in battle".

What is another word for combat casualty?

Close synonyms include battle damage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is combat casualty a common word?

combat casualty is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.