in the black

Meaning

(accounting, idiomatic) Having positive net income; having greater income than expenses; making a profit.

(accounting, idiomatic) Having positive net worth.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

ameer profitable solvent gainful

Antonyms

broke ruined bankrupt bust smashed destitute
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Examples

We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community. Coretta Scott King

We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves. Herman Wouk

Industrial design keeps the customer happy, his client in the black and the designer busy. Raymond Loewy

Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized. H. Rap Brown

The wealth of south Florida, but even more important, the meaning and significance of south Florida lies in the black muck of the Everglades and the inevitable development of this country to be the great tropic agricultural center of the world. Marjory Stoneman Douglas

When you shoot a zebra in the black stripe, the white dies too; shoot it in the white and the black dies too. South African Proverb

Words in the phrase

in the black

Close letter words and terms

in the big apple in the bilge in the birth canal In the blink of an eye in the blood in the blood stream