in the black

idiom

: making a profit : profitable
The company is finally in the black.

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Yet even as some accounts were deep in the black, some agencies were overspending others by wider margins. Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2025 After scrambling to survive early on, True Link has been in the black for the past two years, netting $2 million on $30 million in revenue in 2024, says CEO and cofounder Kai Stinchcombe. Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025 Interestingly, our neighbor states — Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania — seem to have managed to keep their state budgets in the black. Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2025 Lopez said the arts center is on track to again be in the black in the new fiscal year. Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2025 Attendance reached an admirable 83 percent of total capacity in 2023-24, and in 2022-23, the most recent year for which results are public, the orchestra recorded a surplus of $1.1 million on a $42.4 million budget, its first year in the black since 2018. David Allen Jenn Ackerman, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025

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“In the black.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20the%20black. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.

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