be in the red
informalC2 If you or your bank account are in the red, you owe money to the bank.
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be in the black
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Borrowing & lending
- be in the hole idiom
- borrow
- bounce
- call it quits idiom
- call sth in
- debenture
- fire sale
- gearing
- leverage
- leveraged buyout
- liability
- liquidate
- national debt
- overpay
- pay
- put sth up
- slate
- square the accounts/books idiom
- term
- tick
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