{
  "id": "loss.economic",
  "term": "loss",
  "sense": "economic",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 2,
  "arena": "emergencelexicon",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "When a thing that was here is not here after, there is a difference.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "change.process",
      "difference.relation"
    ],
    "interaction": "A change makes the thing not here and the difference records that the before and after are not the same.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "absence",
      "reduction",
      "non‑presence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers erased $630 billion in market value within days.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Aral Sea shrank by 90% after Soviet irrigation projects diverted its tributaries.",
      "domain": "environment"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster disabled 4.7 gigawatts of generating capacity.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "difference.relation",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "cost.economic",
    "death.biological",
    "insurance.financial",
    "lost.state",
    "protection.security",
    "risk.uncertainty",
    "save.preservation"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "loss",
    "losses"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-loss.economic"
}