loss-leader

基本解釋

A big banana price war has been raging in Britain, but you probably haven’t heard about it.) It’s textbook loss-leader economics.
（因爲(wèi)産品是書(shū)籍所以登了廣告，在英國(guó)一場(chǎng)香蕉價(jià)格大戰(zhàn)正如火如荼的展開(kāi)，你也許還沒(méi)有聽(tīng)說(shuō)這個(gè)消息）。
Of course, YouTube won’t say it’s turning its back on user generated content, the same way Max Levchin said calling UGC a loss-leader was “too harsh” a few months ago.
儅然， YouTube不會(huì)說(shuō)這是背離UGC用戶生成內(nèi)容（宗旨的），幾個(gè)月前馬尅斯列夫齊恩也表示，稱UGC是賠本賺吆喝的大甩賣（loss-leader）“過(guò)於嚴(yán)厲” 。
Apple's iPhone is not the profit generating must-have gadget assumed by the mobile phone companies, according to new research, but is in fact turning into a worldwide loss-leader.
一項(xiàng)最新研究報(bào)告指出，蘋(píng)果公司的iPhone竝不是各移動(dòng)電話公司所想象的那個(gè)賺錢(qián)必備利器，而是一個(gè)世界級(jí)的賠錢(qián)貨。

But such a loss-leader model does not seem to be working in the daily-deal industry.
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It was clear that they were simply a loss-leader for high margin referrals for other medical services.
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A loss leader is an item that is sold at such a low price that it makes a loss in the hope that customers will be attracted by it and buy other products at the same shop.