🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

entreprise déficitaire

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ã-trə-priz de-fi-si-tar

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Loss-maker/ˈlɒsˌmeɪ.kər/
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Cette filiale est devenue un véritable loss-maker pour le groupe."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A product, business, or investment that continually loses money rather than making a profit.

    "The company decided to discontinue the loss-maker and focus entirely on its high-margin services."
  2. 2

    A company or organization that operates at a financial loss overall.

    "After three years as a loss-maker, the startup finally achieved positive cash flow last quarter."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived by combining the noun 'loss' (from Old English los, meaning destruction or ruin) and the agent suffix '-maker' (from Old English macian). The compound entered business and economic lexicon in the mid-20th century to describe ventures, products, or entities consistently generating negative financial returns.

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