0 not making a profit:
loss-making businesses/companies
1 relating to a business or part of a business that does not make a profit:
2 relating to a period of time during which a person, company, etc. does not make a profit:
It is expected to show losses of £26m-£29m in the traditionally loss-making first half.
It is widely held that most railway services are inherently loss-making, but politically necessary, thus requiring some form of public subsidy.
In 1890, at the end of its eighth 600-page volume, this distinguished, though loss-making, venture had to fold.
Would not the annihilation of a loss-making service actually produce a net saving, or, indeed, a profit for the other operator?
There is the trading function, which deals with the profitability or loss-making of the business.
Are loss-making industries in the public sector to be pushed even lower?
Often they are loss-making, scruffy and down-market and provide only limited or poor quality services in an atmosphere of shabby, political agitprop.
In these circumstances, only one other possibility is feasible—that the loss-making assets should be foisted on the local authorities.
They are the less loss-making part, the plums.
