make up a loss
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make a profit/loss — ► to earn or lose more money than you spend: »The business made a pre tax profit of £14.9m last year. Main Entry: ↑make … Financial and business terms
loss-making — ˈloss ˌmaking adjective FINANCE a loss making product or business activity is one that does not make a profit: • Loss making, state owned businesses will be sold off. loss maker noun [countable] : • The plant has long been a loss maker for Volvo … Financial and business terms
loss-maker — loss making ˈloss ˌmaking adjective FINANCE a loss making product or business activity is one that does not make a profit: • Loss making, state owned businesses will be sold off. loss maker noun [countable] : • The plant has long been a loss… … Financial and business terms
make — make, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {made} (m[=a]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {making}.] [OE. maken, makien, AS. macian; akin to OS. mak?n, OFries. makia, D. maken, G. machen, OHG. mahh?n to join, fit, prepare, make, Dan. mage. Cf. {Match} an equal.] 1. To cause to … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
make a loss — make a profit/loss ► to earn or lose more money than you spend: »The business made a pre tax profit of £14.9m last year. Main Entry: ↑make … Financial and business terms
make a profit — make a profit/loss ► to earn or lose more money than you spend: »The business made a pre tax profit of £14.9m last year. Main Entry: ↑make … Financial and business terms
loss — The opposite of gain. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * loss loss [lɒs ǁ lɒːs] noun 1. [countable, uncountable] the fact of no longer having something that you used to have, or having less of it: • loss of earnings through illness ˈjob loss… … Financial and business terms
make — ▪ I. make make 1 [meɪk] verb made PTandPP [meɪd] making PRESPART 1. [transitive] MANUFACTURING to produce something by working or by using industrial processes … Financial and business terms
loss — n. 1) to inflict losses on (our forces inflicted heavy losses on the enemy) 2) (sports) to hand smb. a loss (they handed our team its first loss of the season) 3) to incur, suffer, sustain, take losses (to take heavy losses) 4) to make up, offset … Combinatory dictionary
make — 1 verb past tense and past participle made, PRODUCE STH 1 (T) to produce something by working: I m going to make a cake for Sam s birthday. | Did you make that dress yourself? | a car made in Japan | They re making a documentary about the Civil… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
make a loss — to sell smth for less than its production cost (opposite in meaning to to make a profit) (loss making) … Idioms and examples
