- 1虧損的、賠錢的
A loss-making product or business does not make money. It costs more than it brings in, so it makes a loss, not a profit. News and company reports use this of shops, airlines, factories, and also of one product line that a company keeps selling even though that line itself loses money — sometimes to keep customers, or because they hope it will turn around. It is a business word, a little formal. You describe a company or a product this way, not a person. The opposite idea is profit-making.
loss-making 形容不賺錢的業務或產品，支出超過收入，所以是虧損，不是獲利。新聞和公司報告常用來說商店、航空公司和工廠，也可以指公司明明知道某條產品線本身在虧錢，卻還是繼續賣，有時是為了留住客戶，有時是希望它之後能轉虧為盈。
這是商業用語，語氣稍微正式。它用來形容公司或產品，不用來形容人。相反的概念是「profit-making」，指能夠賺錢的。
組成loss + making: a compound adjective, “that makes a loss.”
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
loss-makingadj
- 1
Making financial losses.
- Near-synonym: unprofitable
- 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.
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