full-year loss

noun [C]

Definition

› ACCOUNTING the loss made by a company at the end of a whole financial year: The bank posted its first ever full-year loss last week after exposure to the global property market crash.

(Definition of full-year loss noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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