bad investment
noun[CorU]
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aninvestmentin which you do not make aprofit, or make lessprofitthan youhoped:
Property hasprovedto be abadinvestmentover the last fewyears.
Badinvestmentover anumberofyearshasledto thissituation.
Examplesofbad investment
bad investment
This would be abadinvestment, since it would be empty.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This throwing of good money after bad appeals to those reluctant to admit that they made abadinvestment.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A stockbroker should not sell his client abadinvestmentjust to collect the commission.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.She suffered another serious financial setback in 1835 when she lost most of her life savings, about 300, in abadinvestment.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Morebadinvestmentwould be a disaster in our present strained situation.
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When we lose £10 million or £11 million a year, it would not be abadinvestmentto allow £100,000 for the assistance of flying clubs.
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I have the impression that it is likely to be abadinvestment.
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They might think that it was abadinvestment.
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That would mean more than £1 billion of taxpayers' money being used to compensate shareholders for abadinvestment.
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It is abadinvestmentthat does not work, as money that should be used elsewhere in teaching goes down the drain.
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- fallacious argument
- fallacious assumption
- fallaciously
- fallaciousness
- fallacy
- fall-all-over-self
- fall all over yourself
- fall apart
- fall-apart
- fall asleep
- fall-asleep
- fall away
- fall-away
- fall back
- fallback
- fall-back
- fall-back-on
- fall back on something
- fall back on sth
- fall-back-on-sth
- fallback position
- fall behind
- fall-behind
- fall between two stools
- fall-between-two-stools