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Meaning of bleed red ink | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To suffer from severe net losses.

idiomatic

Examples

“The city program was meant to pay for itself, but from the start it was bleeding red ink and was eventually shut down.”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

bleed the lizard bleed the monkey bleed white bleeded bleedest bleedeth