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red ink en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Australia) audio
- /ˈɹɛdˌiŋk/
Meanings
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(euphemistic, idiomatic, uncountable) Financial loss.
GCN has gleefully swum against the political mainstream. Less comfortable has been the financial torrent that now washes the paper in red ink. Being out of step politically has meant not having access to lucrative advertisers.
1991 December 1, Gordon Gottlieb, “The Struggle Continues”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 20, page 11:
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(idiomatic, slang, uncountable) Cheap red wine.
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(uncountable) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, ink.
Antonyms
black ink
Relateds
in the red · in the black