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to be at a loss
to be puzzled and perplexed, not to know what to 
do: 
Nellie was seldom or never at a loss.
to operate/run at a loss 
to earn less money from smth you sell than 
it costs you to produce it: 
Two of the mines are running at a loss.

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a loser
n
someone who is in the worse situation when they were 
or someone who has lost a competition, a game, etc.: 
He is a born 
loser. Unlike her brother, she becomes too upset if she loses — I’d describe 
her as a bad/sore loser.
lost property (BrE)/lost-and-found (AmE)
a place where lost 
or accidentally left things are kept until someone claims them: 
Thank-
fully, someone had handed my bag into Lost Property.
4. 
addict
n
a person who is unable to free himself from a harmful 
habit: 
a recovering drug/morphine addict, a TV/sports addict, a coffee 
addict; My nephew is a complete video game addict.
addicted (to)
a
in need or in the habit of having: 
50 million 
Americans are addicted to nicotine. An average kid is nowadays ad-
dicted to surfing the Net for hours.
addiction
n
the state of being addicted or an example of this: 
His 
addiction to alcohol ruined his first two marriages.
addictive
a
causing addiction, habit-forming: 
Do you really believe 
that tobacco is non-addictive?; Psychologists are no longer split on the 
issue of arcade games being highly addictive.
5. 
involve
 vt
1) to cause smb or smth to take part or be mixed up 
(in trouble, a difficult condition, etc.):
 I don’t want to get involved in 
some lengthy argument about who is to blame. They are deeply/heav-
ily involved in debt. Parents need to be involved with their children’s 
education. 
2) to have as a necessary result: 
Most people don’t realize 
the amount of effort involved in writing a novel.