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red

/rɛd/

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noun
the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue
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"the company operated in the red last year"

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loss red ink

type of:
amount sum amount of money sum of money
noun
red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
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redness

type of:
spectral colour spectral color chromatic colour chromatic color
adjective
characterized by violence or bloodshed
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"convulsed with red rage"

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crimson violent bloody
adjective
of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
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blood-red carmine cerise cherry cherry-red crimson reddish ruby ruby-red ruddy scarlet chromatic
noun
a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana
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red river

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lone-star state pelican state tex. tx texas oklahoma la la. sooner state okla. ok louisiana
adjective
(especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion
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"turned red from exertion" "with puffy reddened eyes" "red-faced and violent"

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crimson flushed red-faced reddened colored coloured colorful
noun
emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries
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bolshevik bolshie bolshy marxist

type of:
radical

Examples of red

"the company operated in the red last year"
"convulsed with red rage"
"turned red from exertion"
"with puffy reddened eyes"
"red-faced and violent"