Once the expense of making a prototype is absorbed and the minimum factory order reached, sizable profits await in a bigger run.

一旦原型的成本被消化并达到最低的工厂订单数量，高额利润就指日可待。

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Any losses could be carried forward until they were absorbed by future profits.

FORBES: Mitigating Inflation's Fallout

The first is that European firms have so far absorbed, in the form of lower profits, some of the euro's rise.

ECONOMIST: Currency hedging