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lose your shirt
US informalDefinition
(Definition of lose your shirt from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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SMART Thesaurus: Profits & losses
Synonyms and related words:
- buoyant adjective (SUCCESSFUL)
- capital gains noun
- credit noun (MONEY)
- deficit noun
- diminishing returns noun
- gold mine noun
- gross receipts noun
- interim adjective
- ka-ching noun or exclamation
- loss noun
- loss-making adjective
- markup noun
- paper profit noun
- pay verb (BUY)
- profit sharing noun
- rig the market idiom
- speculation noun (TRADING)
- takings noun
- turnover noun (BUSINESS)
- uneconomic adjective
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