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third-person singular simple present loses out, present participle losing out, simple past and past participle lost out
To be at a disadvantage. examples
(with 'to') To be defeated (by). quotations examples
Chelsea had two players sent off and lost out to a Heidar Helguson penalty in a heated west London derby.
2011 October 23, Becky Ashton, “QPR 1 - 0 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport
The Western Region learned that it was to lose out on new stock deliveries, inheriting instead 110 part-second-hand dual-heated Mk 2a vehicles from the Eastern Region.
2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail, page 67