ロス

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ロスする · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Meanings

Broadly used for tangible and intangible losses, including wasted time, money, or opportunity. Often used in compounds like タイムロス.

feeling of loss

Colloquial suffix-like use, often attached to nouns to express a sense of emptiness or missing something, e.g., 〇〇ロス.

〈事こと〉でロスが出でるto incur a loss because of something
在ざい庫こ管かん理りのミスでロスが出でた。
A loss occurred because of a mistake in inventory management.
〈物もの〉ロスになるto feel the emptiness of missing something (after it ends)
ドラマが終おわってドラマロスになった。
The drama ended and I fell into a sense of loss over it.
ロスを減へらすto reduce loss or waste
食しょく品ひんのロスを減へらす取とり組くみが増ふえている。
Efforts to reduce food loss are increasing.

損そん失しつN1sense 1
損失 is a formal word for financial or material loss, while ロス is a casual loanword covering a wider range of losses, including time and feelings.
無む駄だN4sense 1
無駄 stresses wastefulness or futility of an act, while ロス simply names the loss or missing amount itself.

利り益えきN2sense 1
利益 means profit or gain, the direct opposite of ロス in the sense of a financial or material loss.

ロス
As a place name, ロス is a casual abbreviation for ロサンゼルス (Los Angeles), a completely unrelated meaning from the 'loss' sense of ロス.

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Loanword from English 'loss'.