operational casualty

1. 1.

   loss of military equipment in field operations

   Synonymsoperational damage

   Broaderdamage

   military

Questions about operational casualty

What does operational casualty mean?

operational casualty means "loss of military equipment in field operations".

What is another word for operational casualty?

Close synonyms include operational 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 operational casualty a common word?

operational 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.