RED INK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does red ink mean? 

• RED INK (noun)
  The noun RED INK has 1 sense:

1. the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue

  Familiarity information: RED INK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RED INK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

loss; red; red ink

Context example:

the company operated in the red last year

Hypernyms ("red ink" is a kind of...):

amount; amount of money; sum; sum of money (a quantity of money)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "red ink"):

paper loss (an unrealized loss on an investment calculated by subtracting the current market price from the investor's cost)

squeeze (a situation in which increased costs cannot be passed on to the customer)

 Context examples 

I took up the envelope and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the gum, the letter K three times repeated.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were several additions of a later date, but above all, three crosses of red ink—two on the north part of the island, one in the southwest—and beside this last, in the same red ink, and in a small, neat hand, very different from the captain's tottery characters, these words: Bulk of treasure here.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

You see this other page in red ink?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)