loss-leader

基本解释

A big banana price war has been raging in Britain, but you probably haven’t heard about it.) It’s textbook loss-leader economics.
（因为产品是书籍所以登了广告，在英国一场香蕉价格大战正如火如荼的展开，你也许还没有听说这个消息）。
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.
当然， YouTube不会说这是背离UGC用户生成内容（宗旨的），几个月前马克斯列夫齐恩也表示，称UGC是赔本赚吆喝的大甩卖（loss-leader）“过于严厉” 。
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.
一项最新研究报告指出，苹果公司的iPhone并不是各移动电话公司所想象的那个赚钱必备利器，而是一个世界级的赔钱货。

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.