| 单词 | red ink |
| 释义 | red ink (once / 7406 pages) n If you are in debt or your bank account shows a negative amount, you could say that you're drowning in red ink. Red ink is a financial deficit. The amount of money that a person or business owes, or overspends, is red ink. If a restaurant's number of customers declines at the same time that its expenses increase, its owner will end up overcome by red ink. You could also describe this situation as being in the red. Both expressions come from the accounting tradition of writing debits or expenses in red ink, and income in black ink. WORD FAMILYred ink: red inks USAGE EXAMPLESThe move signals Lampert remains committed to bankrolling Sears, even as the business suffers from dwindling sales and billions in red ink. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) It’s hard to imagine a more pragmatic way to help kids thrive than by keeping red ink off the menu. Washington Times(Dec 26, 2016) She usually scrawled it in English, and with red ink. The New Yorker(Dec 26, 2016) n the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper loss, red gain the amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating paper loss an unrealized loss on an investment calculated by subtracting the current market price from the investor's cost squeezea situation in which increased costs cannot be passed on to the customer amount, amount of money, sum, sum of money a quantity of money |
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