Lose Lost Meaning Fail Benefit Benefitting Synonym Miss

Meaning: If you lose out, you fail to benefit from something that others are benefitting from.

• lose out Thanks to my stockbroker, I've lost out big time. He told me to sell all my telecom shares - and now they're worth a fortune!
  
  
• lose out The Education Ministry has lost out again in this year's budget because the government needs the money to pay for the war.