0 an activity or process that is not at all effective or successful: --
Of that, according to an answer given a year ago, £489,000 had been repaid at that date and £295,000 had been written off as a dead loss.
That was a dead loss to the community of £510,000.
I believe that they are a dead loss.
Does he realise that to delay any longer means a further dead loss?
I think a period of no institutional advance is not to be regarded as a tragedy or a dead loss.
Many ships are saved for the repair yards to-day which in earlier days would have been a dead loss to us.
They think that something is in writing, and that they can go to the courts, but basically it is all a dead loss.
At the present moment the money is a dead loss.
