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Mr. Tom Posted 4 years ago
Vocabulary

Loss-making business

Hi

I think I have asked this question before but can't find it. Could you please tell me how the red phrase sounds to your native ears?

  1. They are still running that loss-making business.
  2. It was a loss-making factory they had been operating for over a decade.

I am sure that loss-making exists and is very common in Indian English, especially business English. Can I request your take please?

Thanks,

Tom

  

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Mr. Tom Can I request your take please? Even though I've seen it in a thesaurus, loss-making is completely unfamiliar to me.

— CalifJim

  • Mr.
  • Tom Can I request your take please?
  • Even though I've seen it in a thesaurus, loss-making is completely unfamiliar to me.
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  • English) Substitutes for 'failing' might be unprofitable, struggling, foundering, faltering, collapsing.
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Mr. TomCan I request your take please?

Even though I've seen it in a thesaurus, loss-making is completely unfamiliar to me.

that failing business (U.S. English)

Substitutes for 'failing' might be

unprofitable, struggling, foundering, faltering, collapsing.

CJ

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