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cut one's losses

  • 1 cut one's losses

    (to decide to spend no more money, effort etc on something which is proving unprofitable.) παρατώ αποτυχημένη προσπάθεια

    English-Greek dictionary > cut one's losses

  • 2 cut

    1. present participle - cutting; verb
    1) (to make an opening in, usually with something with a sharp edge: He cut the paper with a pair of scissors.) κόβω
    2) (to separate or divide by cutting: She cut a slice of bread; The child cut out the pictures; She cut up the meat into small pieces.) κόβω
    3) (to make by cutting: She cut a hole in the cloth.) κόβω
    4) (to shorten by cutting; to trim: to cut hair; I'll cut the grass.) κόβω
    5) (to reduce: They cut my wages by ten per cent.) κόβω, μειώνω
    6) (to remove: They cut several passages from the film.) κοβω, αφαιρώ
    7) (to wound or hurt by breaking the skin (of): I cut my hand on a piece of glass.) κόβω
    8) (to divide (a pack of cards).) `κόβω` τράπουλα
    9) (to stop: When the actress said the wrong words, the director ordered `Cut!') διακόπτω
    10) (to take a short route or way: He cut through/across the park on his way to the office; A van cut in in front of me on the motorway.) κόβω δρόμο
    11) (to meet and cross (a line or geometrical figure): An axis cuts a circle in two places.) τέμνω
    12) (to stay away from (a class, lecture etc): He cut school and went to the cinema.) κάνω κοπάνα
    13) ((also cut dead) to ignore completely: She cut me dead in the High Street.) κάνω πως δε βλέπω
    2. noun
    1) (the result of an act of cutting: a cut on the head; a power-cut (= stoppage of electrical power); a haircut; a cut in prices.) κόψιμο, διακοπή, μείωση
    2) (the way in which something is tailored, fashioned etc: the cut of the jacket.) κόψιμο
    3) (a piece of meat cut from an animal: a cut of beef.) κομμάτι
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    - cutting 3. adjective
    (insulting or offending: a cutting remark.) δηκτικός
    - cut-price
    - cut-throat     4. adjective
    (fierce; ruthless: cut-throat business competition.) ανηλεής
    - cut and dried
    - cut back
    - cut both ways
    - cut a dash
    - cut down
    - cut in
    - cut it fine
    - cut no ice
    - cut off
    - cut one's losses
    - cut one's teeth
    - cut out
    - cut short

    English-Greek dictionary > cut

См. также в других словарях:

  • cut one's losses — {v. phr.} To stop spending time, money, or energy on unprofitable projects and concentrate on what goes well. * / Just cut your losses, Jim, his father suggested, and get on with the rest of your life. / …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • cut one's losses — {v. phr.} To stop spending time, money, or energy on unprofitable projects and concentrate on what goes well. * / Just cut your losses, Jim, his father suggested, and get on with the rest of your life. / …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • cut one's losses — phrasal : to withdraw (as from an enterprise) and accept current losses in order to prevent further loss * * * cut one s losses To have done with an unprofitable venture • • • Main Entry: ↑cut * * * abandon an enterprise or course of action that… …   Useful english dictionary

  • cut one’s losses — tv. to do something to stop a loss of something. □ I knew I had to do something to cut my losses, but it was almost too late. □ Sell some of the high priced stuff to cut your losses …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • Cut one's losses — abandon a project in which one has already invested some part of one s capital, either material or emotional, for no return, so as not to incur more losses …   Dictionary of Australian slang

  • cut one's losses — Australian Slang abandon a project in which one has already invested some part of one s capital, either material or emotional, for no return, so as not to incur more losses …   English dialects glossary

  • cut\ one's\ losses — v. phr. To stop spending time, money, or energy on unprofitable projects and concentrate on what goes well. Just cut your losses, Jim, his father suggested, and get on with the rest of your life …   Словарь американских идиом

  • cut one's losses — verb To discontinue an effort that seems unlikely ever to bear fruit …   Wiktionary

  • cut one's losses —    If you end or withdraw from something that is already failing, in order to reduce the loss of money, time or effort invested in it …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • cut one's losses — to end or withdraw from a bad situation which can only get worse (loss cutting) …   Idioms and examples

  • cut one’s losses (to) —  Concede defeat.  See also bailout …   American business jargon

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