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red ink
noun
a financial deficit; business loss.
the condition of showing a business loss.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of red ink1
Example Sentences
He scrawled in red ink on a Ministry of Supply report that said the Americans were producing greater quantities: "I am sorry we can't produce more".
He wanted to avoid a debt limit fight next year when his priorities — tax cuts and open-ended spending for mass deportations — would add to the red ink.
Translation: This home loan program is broke and no additional money has been appropriated by the Legislature because the state is bleeding red ink.
By then the company was confronting a tide of red ink.
His words, printed in red ink to resemble spilt blood, read: "If anyone has a knife and you see it... run and inform someone. Be aware – knives cost lives."
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