loss-making

See also: lossmaking

English

Alternative forms

• lossmaking

Adjective

loss-making (comparative more loss-making, superlative most loss-making)

1. Making financial losses.

   Antonyms: profitable, lucrative, profitmaking

   Near-synonym: unprofitable

   • 2020 January 2, David Clough, “How InterCity came back from the brink”, in Rail, page 66:

     The briefing to the Board set out four areas where changes were proposed in the amount attributable to InterCity. Transferring loss-making services to Provincial and taking over Gatwick Express and London-Norwich gave a benefit of £14m.

Related terms

• lossmaker

Collocations

with nouns

• loss-making business
• loss-making company
• loss-making enterprise
• loss-making firm
• loss-making operation
• loss-making unit
• loss-making activity
• loss-making subsidiary

Translations

making financial losses

• Czech: ztrátový
• Dutch: verlieslatend
• Finnish: tappiollinen, tappiota tekevä
• French: déficitaire (fr)
• German: verlustbringend, verlustmachend, defizitär (de)
• Hungarian: veszteséges (hu)
• Italian: in perdita
• Polish: deficytowy (pl)
• Russian: убы́точный (ru) (ubýtočnyj)
• Spanish: deficitario
• Ukrainian: збитко́вий (zbytkóvyj)

Further reading

• “loss-making”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.