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BODY COUNT
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A count of troops killed in an operation or time period
Example:
the daily body count increased as the war went on
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("body count" is a kind of...):
count (the total number counted)