negative territory
noun[U]
ukusasituationin which anamountor afigureis less than zero, or less than apreviousorexpectedlevel:
USstocksremainedinnegativeterritoryatmidday.
Examplesofnegative territory
negative territory
After the oil price crash, cash flow for many companies was innegativeterritory.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, net satisfaction sunk back intonegativeterritoryin the fourth quarter of 2004, and has remained negative since, dipping as low as 38 in the second quarter of 2008.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.We are innegativeterritory.
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