| 单词 | loss-making |
| 释义 | loss-making adjective uk/ˈlɒsˌmeɪ.kɪŋ/us/ˈlɑːsˌmeɪ.kɪŋ/not making aprofit: 亏损的，不盈利的loss-makingbusinesses/companies亏损企业／公司 Profits & losses
loss-making| Business Englishloss-making adjective FINANCE,COMMERCE/ˈlɒsˌmeɪkɪŋ/ukusrelatingto abusinessorpartof abusinessthat does not make aprofit: Hecontrolsavastbusinessempire, but many of hisfirmsare loss-making. aloss-makingbusiness/company/venture aloss-makingactivity/contract/operation relatingto aperiodoftimeduring which aperson,company, etc. does not make aprofit: It isexpectedto showlossesof £26m-£29m in thetraditionallyloss-making firsthalf. loss-makernoun[C](alsoloss maker) Distilling thesugarintorumturnsit from alossmakerinto avaluableexportcommodity. Examplesofloss-makingloss-making It is widely held that most railway services are inherentlyloss-making, but politically necessary, thus requiring some form of public subsidy. From theCambridge English Corpus In 1890, at the end of its eighth 600-page volume, this distinguished, thoughloss-making, venture had to fold. From theCambridge English Corpus Would not the annihilation of aloss-makingservice 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 theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 There is the trading function, which deals with the profitability orloss-makingof the business. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Areloss-makingindustries in the public sector to be pushed even lower? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Often they areloss-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 theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 In these circumstances, only one other possibility is feasible—that theloss-makingassets should be foisted on the local authorities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They are the lessloss-makingpart, the plums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It means convertingloss-makingnationalised 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 theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We are not dealing with an old, decaying industry with bad industrial relations, with an antiquated work force or with aloss-makingfactory. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 In public hands aloss-makingindustry 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 theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 In other words, it was a modest success story, fromloss-makingto reasonable profit-making. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We recall those dreadful subsidies forloss-makingnationalised industries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 That is the way to meet special needs: not to impose some specialtyloss-makingproduct on the whole area. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I understand that all of these orders are being renegotiated and some potentiallyloss-makingcontracts have been cancelled. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 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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