turn a loss

1. 1.

   fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit

   “I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment!”

   “The company turned a loss after the first year”

   Synonymslose

Questions about turn a loss

What does turn a loss mean?

turn a loss means "fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit".

What is another word for turn a loss?

Close synonyms include lose. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is turn a loss a common word?

turn a 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.