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GainRain Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Turn A Loss

Is "turn a loss" the correct opposite of "turn a profit"?
  

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I don't think so. At least, I've never heard it. Google shows only 412,000 hits, and most of them are "turn a loss into a profit/gain," which is an entirely different kind of phrase.

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  • I don't think so.
  • At least, I've never heard it.
  • Google shows only 412,000 hits, and most of them are "turn a loss into a profit/gain," which is an entirely different kind of phrase.
  • " I could be wrong.
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I don't think so. At least, I've never heard it.

Google shows only 412,000 hits, and most of them are "turn a loss into a profit/gain," which is an entirely different kind of phrase.

I don't believe it's idiomatic to say "The company turned a loss in 2010." I could be wrong.
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No. Perhaps "report a loss" or "incur a loss."
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I do not agree with that usage. "To turn a loss," implies that, by some misfortune, there is a decrement, and therefore has little, if anything, to do with profit. (Sure, businesses lose profit, but saying that every loss is related to profit is absurd.)
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TyruditeSure, businesses lose profit
Indeed, it slips through their fingers.
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