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lose money

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Definition of lose money

: to spend more money than one earns
  • The company has been losing money for the past several years.

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lose play

  1. : to bring to destruction

  2. : damn

  3. : to miss from one's possession or from a customary or supposed place

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money play

  1. : something generally accepted as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment: such as

  2. : officially coined or stamped metal currency

  3. : money of account

  1. : involving or reliable in a crucial situation

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