LOSE OUT TO SB/STH


Meaning of LOSE OUT TO SB/STH in English

( informal ) to not get business, etc. that you expected or used to get because sb/sth else has taken it :

Small businesses are losing out to the large chains.

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне.