Red Ink Definition

noun
A deficit or loss shown in the accounts of a bank, company, etc.
Webster's New World
The condition of showing such a loss or deficit.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Red Ink

  • From the use of red ink to record debits and losses in financial records

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Red Ink Sentence Examples

  • The "Fisherman's ring" is a red ink stamp representing St Peter on a boat casting out his nets, with the name of the reigning pope.

  • P. decandra, the North American Poke Weed or Red Ink plant, grows 5 to io ft.

  • In business and literary documents red ink was used for contrast, especially in headings; in demotic, however, it is very rarely seen.

  • The patriarch has therefore the title paxapt&Taros and the right to sign his name in red ink.

  • The physical appearance of the writing were long spindly characters formed in red ink.

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