cash burn rate

noun [C] (also burn rate)

Definition

› FINANCE the speed at which a company spends the money that is available to it, when it is not making more money than it spends: We are not concerned about our cash burn rate, we have £117m in the bank which is more than enough to take us through to profitability.

(Definition of cash burn rate noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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