Loss

Loss, as it relates to finance or investing, is the opposite of profit.

Expanded Definition

• In finance: Loss results when the cost of goods and/or services produced exceeds the income generated by their sale.

• In regard to investment: Loss is the result when the sale of a security produces less money returned to the seller than the seller originally paid to purchase the security.

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