acceptable losses

acceptable losses
acceptable damage & acceptable losses
Euph. casualties or destruction inflicted by an enemy that is considered minor or tolerable. •

At present, the enemy's firststrike capability would produce acceptable damage.

The general indicated that the fifty thousand casualties were within the range of acceptable losses.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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