loss
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2.1
- noun
- /lɔs/
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pérdida
- For decades, this practice generated massive tax revenue losses, augmenting the tax gap's size.
- net loss
- suffer losses
- estimate losses
Did you take in any losses throughout?
- Did you take in any losses throughout?
- But they're constantly harvesting losses, which, which juices the returns.
- No, cut your losses, cut your losses, now's the time.
- You're comparing money against jail time, money loss and gain.
- People value losses more than equal sized gains.
- Economic Nobel Prize on human behavior, which is loss looms larger than gain.
Examples
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Clearly, student attrition represents huge potential losses to the individuals, their families, and society as a whole.
Academic text (2008) -
AT&T declared a $1 billion loss as a result of tax changes in the new law.
Academic text (2011) -
So you have your average loss per trade.
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The legal costs and loss of income has been devastating.
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Their gross profit is negative, which means their net loss almost doubled.
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You don't expect us to take a loss of over $2 million lying down?
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While effective, such a response meant significant economic loss for the herd's owner and the local community.
Academic text (2013) -
Ultimately, the plaintiff's expert projected an economic loss of approximately $2.5 million to $4 million.
Academic text (2017) -
The Swiss bank UBS, despite its heavy losses, was able to raise new capital.
Academic text (2008) -
The company reported a significant loss in revenue due to the economic downturn.
Synonyms
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4.3
An amount by which money or resources are less than needed
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4.4
A financial loss shown in company accounts or budgets
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3.0
A situation where a person or business has less money than before
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4.2
Money people waste when they make a bad choice
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
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2.6
A situation when a person no longer has a job because of company problems or a weak economy
- Specialized
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5.3
A short time when a person is not aware of what is around them and does not respond
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4.1
A report that shows how much money a company made and spent during a period
- Specialized
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7.0
The part of customer payments for insurance paid out as claims in a period
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6.0
A loss when you sell something like a house or stock for less than you paid
- Literature
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4.4
Strong happy feelings for someone and the sadness that comes when they leave
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6.1
A fall in an investment's value that is only on paper because you have not sold it
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5.3
Hearing loss from damage to the inner ear or the nerve that sends sound to the brain
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5.8
An instruction to automatically sell shares when their price falls to a set level to limit loss
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Sound cannot pass through the middle ear to reach the inner ear, causing hearing loss
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When a computer system or program forgets what it learned after training on new data
A report made at the end of a business year that shows its profit or loss
How Profitable
Surface Forms
Etymology
Loss comes from an old English word los and the verb lose, so a financial loss is simply when you 'lose' money or value and end up with less than before.