- make a profit/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. 2012.
make a profit/loss
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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
realize a profit/loss — realize a gain/profit/loss ► FINANCE to make or lose money when you sell something: »They re trading on an extremely short term basis and will sell once they can realize a profit. »Following liquidation of the portfolio, the County realized a… … Financial and business terms
make a profit — to sell smth for more than it costs to produce (opposite in meaning to to make a loss) (profit making) … Idioms and examples
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 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
realize a gain/profit/loss — ► FINANCE to make or lose money when you sell something: »They re trading on an extremely short term basis and will sell once they can realize a profit. »Following liquidation of the portfolio, the County realized a loss of approximately $600… … 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
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
