fatality
31fatality — n 1. disaster, calamity, catastrophe, terrible accident or occurrence, fatal accident, violent death, Sl. curtains; (all resulting in death) wreck, crash, car crash, plane crash, collision, head on collision, smash up, crack up, pileup. 2. death …
32fatality — fa·tal·i·ty …
33fatality — [fəˈtæləti] noun [C] formal a death that is caused by an accident, war, violence, or disease …
34fatality — fa•tal•i•ty [[t]feɪˈtæl ɪ ti, fə [/t]] n. pl. ties 1) a death caused by a disaster 2) the quality of causing death; deadliness 3) predetermined liability to misfortune, etc 4) the quality of being subject to fate 5) the fate of a person or thing… …
35fatality — /fəˈtæləti / (say fuh taluhtee) noun (plural fatalities) 1. a disaster resulting in death; a calamity or misfortune. 2. someone who is killed in an accident or disaster. 3. the quality of causing death or disaster; deadliness; a fatal influence.… …
36fatality — n. (pl. ies) 1 a an occurrence of death by accident or in war etc. b a person killed in this way. 2 a fatal influence. 3 a predestined liability to disaster. 4 subjection to or the supremacy of fate. Etymology: F fataliteacute or LL fatalitas f.… …
37fatality rate — noun The number of people that die per a number of cases …
38fatality rate — noun the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year • Syn: ↑deathrate, ↑death rate, ↑mortality, ↑mortality rate • Hypernyms: ↑rate • Hyponyms: ↑ …
39Occupational fatality — An occupational fatality is a death that occurs while a person is at work or performing work related tasks. Occupational fatalities are also commonly called “occupational deaths” or “work related deaths/fatalities” and can occur in any industry… …
40Mass fatality incident — (abbreviated MFI) is an emergency management term used to identify an incident involving more dead bodies and/or body parts than can be located, identified, and processed for final disposition by available response resources. Although it is a… …
