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dead loss

noun

  1. informal.
    a person, thing, or situation that is completely useless or unprofitable
  2. a complete loss for which no compensation is received
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

If the date was filled in and a delay of two months took place, a new stamp would have to be purchased, and that means dead loss.

I want the business to be a success, and I am sure you do; but this plan, you will excuse me saying so, will be a dead loss.

Because, of course, if I went and busted myself up I'd be more or less of a dead loss.

It is an absolute dead loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars to me that my railroad is on this side of the ocean.

Does not wisdom tell us that such a sacrifice is a dead loss—to the warm-hearted often a grievous one?

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