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big bath
 n.— «Companies can use accounting tactics to make one quarter, or one year, look worse than it really was, often by putting aside reserves. This is called “the big bath.”» —“Recipes for cooking company books call for various lingo” by Ellen Simon Philadelphia Inquirer (Pa.) July 31, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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