a money-losing proposition

常见例句

Canada stopped making pennies in 2012, and with good reason. Coining pennies is a money-losing proposition, and people don't really need them anymore.
加拿大自2012年開始停止制造1分硬幣，是有充足理由的。制造這種硬幣是一門賠錢的生意，而且人們已經不再需要它了。
Money fled that money-losing proposition to unofficial lenders paying higher rates for deposits because they were charging, not the official 6.5% rate for a loan, but 30% to 70%.
資金之所以逃離虧本行業，逃曏存款利率更高的非官方放貸処，是因爲它們給付的利息不是官方貸款的6.5%，而是30-70%。

The firm has no intention of litigating these claims, the lawsuit says, because lawyers know that would be a money-losing proposition.
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This can turn into a money-losing proposition, though.
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Take that out of the equation and app-based publishing, like print publishing, is a cost-heavy, money-losing proposition.
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