"Eles perderão a prazo."

Translation: They will miss the deadline.

[Roffak]

Eles perderao a prazo ou Eles perderao o prazo? acho que tem um erro nesta oracao

[Paulenrique]

yes, there is a mistake. the deadline = o prazo.

[SpencerPri4]

Prazo is masculine. But now it's feminine!?!

[Danmoller]

Yes, it's wrong, it's "O prazo".

But....if the translation was: "they will lose in the long term", then "a prazo" would be right (preposition + noun).

We use "a prazo" very commonly when buying stuff. There are two buying options: "à vista" or "a prazo".

• À vista = single payment
• A prazo = the price is divided to be paid monthly (in the long term)

[hr1982]

Is there a reason "They will lose the time" doesn't work?