red ink
Americannoun
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a financial deficit; business loss.
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the condition of showing a business loss.
Etymology
Origin of red ink
An Americanism dating back to 1925–30
Example Sentences
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More significantly, doubt is creeping in about how long America’s markets will remain exceptional—stocks that trade at a premium and bonds that stay buoyant despite no end in sight to government red ink.
Yet little attention is paid to the tide of red ink that higher rates brought to the bank itself.
From Barron's
Investors are nonetheless concerned by the widening pool of red ink; wage and benefit costs also soared in the third quarter.
From Barron's
Reality Labs, the division created to power that alternative universe, lost $4.4 billion last quarter, taking its cumulative red ink past $70 billion in less than five years.
From Barron's
Reality Labs, the division created to power that alternative universe, lost $4.4 billion last quarter, taking its cumulative red ink past $70 billion in less than five years.
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