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heavy loss

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meanings of heavyand loss


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heavy
adjective
uk /ˈhev.i/ us /ˈhev.i/
weighing a lot, and needing effort to move ...
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loss
noun
uk /lɒs/ us /lɑːs/
the fact that you no longer have something or have less ...
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Examples of heavy loss


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A publisher who arrived late on the market or who miscalculated the demand for an ordinary, "mid-list" book could be punished with a heavyloss.
As the services are being conducted at a heavyloss, the additional expenditure involved in re-establishing a second delivery is not warranted.
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In addition, the number of repairs that have to be done is appallingly high, and leads to a heavyloss of working hours.
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We must no doubt still be prepared to encounter setbacks and periods of heavyloss.
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I do not know whether that figure was right, but there was no doubt that a heavyloss was made.
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In these circumstances, is it really surprising that a heavyloss has been incurred?
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What is plain is that the railways are now incurring a very heavyloss indeed, whatever the cause may be.
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The large proportion of these growers had no proper storage facilities for keeping the onions, and they suffered a heavyloss.
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Most of them are running at a very heavyloss for the simple reason that they have not enough to do.
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It is a very expensive scheme, which would run at a heavyloss of about £1 million a year.
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The greatest safeguard against pits being unnecessarily closed is the heavyloss which that would entail.
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Practically all collieries are now, and have been for two or three years, working at a heavyloss.
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There has been to them very heavyloss.
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There is already a heavyloss on the postal service in the locality, and additional expenditure would not be justified.
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A heavyloss would necessarily result.
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That would be a heavyloss to the future of the world.
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There is going to be a grave risk of its physical deterioration, and that will mean a heavyloss to the taxpayer.
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She says that the agreement is a heavyloss to the taxpayer.
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For one thing, it means a heavyloss in the value of our sterling securities abroad.
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