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in the black

in the black prepositional phrase: having positive net income; having greater income than expenses; making a profit.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Having positive net income; having greater income than expenses; making a profit.
  2. (idiomatic) Having positive net worth.

in the black meaning in Malayalam

in the black in Malayalam

debt-free, in credit, in funds
വേണ്ടത്ര മിച്ചമുള്ള സാമ്പത്തികനിലയിലായ, അനൃണ, ഋണമില്ലാത്ത, നിരൃണ, കടമില്ലാത്ത, വേണ്ടത്ര ബാങ്കുനിക്ഷേപമുള്ള

Antonyms of in the black

Origin of in the black

From the standard accounting practice of using black ink, as opposed to red ink, to denote positive values, especially a net income.

Questions about in the black

What does in the black mean?
In the black means having positive net income; having greater income than expenses; making a profit.
What is in the black in Malayalam?
In the black in Malayalam is വേണ്ടത്ര മിച്ചമുള്ള സാമ്പത്തികനിലയിലായ, അനൃണ, ഋണമില്ലാത്ത. See In the black meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is in the black?
In the black is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in the black in the dictionary

  1. in the bargain
  2. in the barrel
  3. in the bed
  4. in the bedroom
  5. in the biblical sense
  6. in the black
  7. in the blink of an eye
  8. in the books
  9. in the bottom of the bag
  10. in the bucket
  11. in the buff

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Adapted from Wiktionary: in the black (page history and authors); in the black (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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