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dead loss
noun
An absolute or total loss.
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Vacant commercial property is usually a dead loss to landowners.
Politically speaking, a refugee crisis is a dead loss.
Without these incentives They're at a dead loss.
"Men are a dead loss to us," observes one of the women.
At high latitudes like ours, most small-scale ambient power production is a dead loss.
Margins on retail banking in Germany are thin; private banking has been a dead loss.
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There's also dead weight loss like the burden of cyber security.
Dog found on doorsteps of office, dead from loss of blood.
This paper presents a methodology for the optimal design of incentive schemes based on the minimisation of Dead Weight Loss for different policy goals and policy restrictions.
Elsewhere, without such buffers, drought rapidly escalates into shrivelled crops, dead livestock loss and, if the people are poor and unprotected, hunger and death.
Foreclosure is a slow and costly process and represents significant dead weight loss for the economy.
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