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loss in English:

1. lose lose


lose (v)
When I think of our standing in the series from now I don't want us to lose even once!
No matter how much you try, you don't lose even a kilo. You might even gain a little weight. This is the diet plateau.
The world is a sacred vessel that cannot be acted on. Whoever acts on it will ruin it; whoever holds on to it will lose it.
I don't lose my appetite when I get stressed, rather I can't calm down unless I eat something.
How can I lose? answered Satan. "All the umpires are down here in Hell."
When the bell rings, he'll start strong and Luciano will lose quickly.
Just as the female ant after coition loses her wings, which then become superfluous, nay, dangerous for breeding purposes, so for the most part does a woman lose her beauty after giving birth to one or two children; and probably for the same reasons.
There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
Never lose sight of the importance of a beautiful sunrise, or watching your kids sleep, or the smell of rain. It's often the small things that really matter in life.
An inexperienced stock speculator could easily let his business go to pot and lose his entire fortune.
We are here just for a spell and then pass on. So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Live your life so that whenever you lose it, you are ahead.
And besides, Dima made sure to add, taking out his calculator and dividing 0.99 by 3,000,000, before multiplying by 100. "You do realize that you would only lose 0.0033%, right?"
When Chokichi thought listlessly about this winter, and the similar winter before and the one before that, he vividly experienced the fact that as people grow older, they gradually lose their happiness.

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2. profit


You must not think about your immediate profit only.
Brokers struggling to make a profit don't always play by the book.
annual profit
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
Never mind that. After all up till now he's stuffed himself on huge profit selling high brand-name goods of no real worth. From now on he can just try his best at honest trade.
Sales at the company zoomed thanks to brisk export demand, but profit did not keep up because of intense competition.
Human society is a function of all humanity, those who profit most from it should pay the most for the benefit they gain, of course being greedy, they just want more.
Profit is better than fame.
As shown above, it is possible to obtain ample profit and customers with truly simple know-how that anyone can do!
Profit on computers for the previous year was nearly ten percent higher than the current year.
1. A financial gain, especially the difference between the amount earned and the amount spent in buying, operating, or producing something; 2. The good result or advantage... E.g. He’s been in business five years, but has not yet turned a profit.
Net profit for the period is estimated at 5 billion yen, largely unchanged from the previous one.
Net profit for the last three months is a new record high!
Peter was an altruistic video game player; he would give items to people who needed them, rather than selling them for personal profit.
All men who profit from the fruits of the earth must give back part of them to the Church, who will apply them to three uses: providing for pastors, the maintenance of religious buildings, help to the poor.

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