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Casualty

CASUALTY, n.
1. Accident; that which comes by chance or without design, or without being foreseen; contingency.
2. An accident that produces unnatural death; and by a metonymy, death, or other misfortune, occasioned by an accident.
3. In Scots law, an emolument due from a vassal to his superior, beyond the stated yearly duties, upon certain casual events.
casualty appears in definitions for these words:
Accident Chance Contingency Hazard Incidence Incident Occasion Wager

 

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