paper loss

1. 1.

   an unrealized loss on an investment calculated by subtracting the current market price from the investor's cost

   Antonymspaper profit

   Broaderloss

Questions about paper loss

What does paper loss mean?

paper loss means "an unrealized loss on an investment calculated by subtracting the current market price from the investor's cost".

What is the opposite of paper loss?

The recorded antonyms are paper profit.

Is paper loss a common word?

paper loss is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.