Meaning:
a euphemism for financial loss.
Examples:
- The last number—printed in red ink—appeared on May 19.
- Eddie, there's a little matter of red ink in the financial statement.
- Towards the middle of each, certain words are written in red ink.
- So cheap, my goodness, I thought it would taste like red ink.
- That's a lot of red ink.
- While the legislation eliminates $220 million in red ink in the budget year that ends June 30, it technically doesn't reduce much larger shortfalls on the immediate horizon.
- The writer corrects his mistakes in red ink or remove it.
- There's plenty of red ink under your name too.
- And the red ink means he got a promotion.
- Noah, you can write it in the books in red ink.