| 词汇 | loss-making |
| 释义 | loss-making adjective uk /ˈlɒsˌmeɪ.kɪŋ/ us /ˈlɑːsˌmeɪ.kɪŋ/ not making a profit: 不盈利的，亏本的 loss-making businesses/companies亏损企业／公司 Profits & losses anti-profiteering anti-speculative be a licence to print moneyidiom buoyancy buoyant cash cow deficit ka-ching lose your shirtidiom margin non-profit-making out-of-pocket pi profit from something profit warning rake-off trade surplus winnings yield loss-making | Business Englishloss-making adjective FINANCE, COMMERCE/ˈlɒsˌmeɪkɪŋ/ukus relating to a business or part of a business that does not make a profit: He controls a vast business empire, but many of his firms are loss-making. a loss-making business/company/venture a loss-making activity/contract/operation relating to a period of time during which a person, company, etc. does not make a profit: It is expected to show losses of £26m-£29m in the traditionally loss-making first half. loss-makernoun[ C ](alsoloss maker) Distilling the sugar into rum turns it from a loss maker into a valuable export commodity. Examples of loss-makingloss-making It is widely held that most railway services are inherently loss-making, but politically necessary, thus requiring some form of public subsidy. In 1890, at the end of its eighth 600-page volume, this distinguished, though loss-making, venture had to fold. Would not the annihilation of a loss-making service actually produce a net saving, or, indeed, a profit for the other operator? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is the trading function, which deals with the profitability or loss-making of the business. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Are loss-making industries in the public sector to be pushed even lower? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Often they are loss-making, scruffy and down-market and provide only limited or poor quality services in an atmosphere of shabby, political agitprop. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In these circumstances, only one other possibility is feasible—that the loss-making assets should be foisted on the local authorities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are the less loss-making part, the plums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It means converting loss-making nationalised industries from leeches siphoning off resources from elsewhere into new centres of profit and enterprise in the private sector. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are not dealing with an old, decaying industry with bad industrial relations, with an antiquated work force or with a loss-making factory. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In public hands a loss-making industry has an agony that is protracted and intense, and the taxpayer pays. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In other words, it was a modest success story, from loss-making to reasonable profit-making. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We recall those dreadful subsidies for loss-making nationalised industries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is the way to meet special needs: not to impose some specialty loss-making product on the whole area. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I understand that all of these orders are being renegotiated and some potentially loss-making contracts have been cancelled. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of loss-making These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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