Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
loss-making
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Chiluba pledged to reduce spending on the security forces and to privatize loss-making parastatal organizations.
▪ Commentators noted the burden this would place on inefficient, loss-making enterprises.
▪ Imports are likely to grow as loss-making capacity is reduced.
▪ It sees restructuring of Urenco as the means to convert a loss-making business into one with potential for growth and profit.
▪ Minority interests A parent undertaking owns 100% of the ordinary shares in a loss-making subsidiary with negative net assets.
▪ The review of loss-making divisions is to continue, notably the Netherlends Westvries subsidiary which lost £394,000 last year.
▪ These muffle market signals and keep too many loss-making factories in business.
▪ To add to Sears' woes another £82 million went on getting rid of its loss-making menswear arm, which included Fosters.
Wiktionary
loss-making
a. Making financial losses. alt. Making financial losses.