haemorrhage

Etymology

noun

  1. British standard spelling of hemorrhage.
    We got news that he died of a haemorrhage!
    Lan Chengzhang, who worked for the China Trade News, died of an apparent brain haemorrhage after over 20 thugs set upon him and his taxi driver on January 10 at a mine in Hunyuan county, in the northern province of Shanxi. JANUARY 24, 2007, “China's Hu takes up case of dead reporter”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-03-10, World News
    Relics of the British empire now mostly survive in the interstices of the global economy. They are the major winners from the fiscal haemorrhage that has resulted from financial globalisation. 14 August 2013, Simon Jenkins, The Guardian

verb

  1. British standard spelling of hemorrhage.
    It’s haemorrhaging now!
    The company haemorrhaged money until eventually it went bankrupt.
    In the early 1980s, the UK was gripped by a recession. A newly elected Conservative government was never going to let BR haemorrhage money if it could help it. July 14 2021, Pip Dunn, “Woodhead 40 years on: time to let go”, in RAIL, number 935, page 39

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