sacrifice

1. Originally, the killing (and often burning) of a human being or an animal as an offering to a deity; later, also the offering of an object to a deity. (countable, uncountable)
2. A human being or an animal, or a physical object or immaterial thing (see etymology 1 sense 1.3), offered to a deity. (countable, uncountable)
3. The offering of devotion, penitence, prayer, thanksgiving, etc., to a deity. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)
4. Jesus Christ's voluntary offering of himself to God the Father to be crucified as atonement for the sins of humankind. (countable, uncountable)
5. The rite of Holy Communion or the Mass, regarded as (Protestantism) an offering of thanksgiving to God for Christ's crucifixion, or (Roman Catholicism) a perpetual re-presentation of Christ's sacrificial offering. (countable, uncountable)
6. The destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else regarded as more urgent or valuable; also, the thing destroyed or surrendered for this purpose. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) · the sacrifice of one’s spare time in order to volunteer
7. In full sacrifice bid: a bid of a contract which is unlikely to be fulfilled, that a player makes in the hope that they will incur fewer penalty points than the points likely to be gained by opponents in making their contract. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)
8. A monetary loss incurred by selling something at less than its value; also, the thing thus sold. (countable, dated, figuratively, slang, uncountable)

Plural sacrifices