"(- -)" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "- -",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "circumfix",
        "head": "(- -)"
      },
      "expansion": "(- -)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "circumfix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English circumfixes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms in nonstandard scripts",
          "parents": [
            "Terms in nonstandard scripts",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Finance",
          "orig": "en:Finance",
          "parents": [
            "Business",
            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "Social sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "-"
        },
        {
          "word": "--"
        },
        {
          "word": "−"
        },
        {
          "word": "−-"
        },
        {
          "word": "+"
        },
        {
          "word": "+-"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "ie. (12,569.46) is a value equal to −12,569.46 [negative twelve-thousand five-hundred and sixty-nine point forty-six]"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "negation: Creates negative values in financial documents, by circumflexing a numeric value in Arabic numerals with round brackets. In these documents, the undecorated numeric value represents a positive value or an absolute value, while the parenthesized numeric value represents a negative value (a value in the red)."
      ],
      "id": "en-(-_-)-en-circumfix-l3533J4~",
      "links": [
        [
          "finance",
          "finance#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "negation",
          "negation#English"
        ],
        [
          "negative",
          "negative#English"
        ],
        [
          "circumflexing",
          "circumflexing#English"
        ],
        [
          "round bracket",
          "round bracket#English"
        ],
        [
          "red",
          "red#English"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "numbers",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(finance, numbers) negation: Creates negative values in financial documents, by circumflexing a numeric value in Arabic numerals with round brackets. In these documents, the undecorated numeric value represents a positive value or an absolute value, while the parenthesized numeric value represents a negative value (a value in the red)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "finance"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "(- -)"
}

{
  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "word": "-"
    },
    {
      "word": "--"
    },
    {
      "word": "−"
    },
    {
      "word": "−-"
    },
    {
      "word": "+"
    },
    {
      "word": "+-"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "- -",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "circumfix",
        "head": "(- -)"
      },
      "expansion": "(- -)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "circumfix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English circumfixes",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms in nonstandard scripts",
        "English terms spelled with parentheses",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Finance"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "ie. (12,569.46) is a value equal to −12,569.46 [negative twelve-thousand five-hundred and sixty-nine point forty-six]"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "negation: Creates negative values in financial documents, by circumflexing a numeric value in Arabic numerals with round brackets. In these documents, the undecorated numeric value represents a positive value or an absolute value, while the parenthesized numeric value represents a negative value (a value in the red)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "finance",
          "finance#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "negation",
          "negation#English"
        ],
        [
          "negative",
          "negative#English"
        ],
        [
          "circumflexing",
          "circumflexing#English"
        ],
        [
          "round bracket",
          "round bracket#English"
        ],
        [
          "red",
          "red#English"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "numbers",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(finance, numbers) negation: Creates negative values in financial documents, by circumflexing a numeric value in Arabic numerals with round brackets. In these documents, the undecorated numeric value represents a positive value or an absolute value, while the parenthesized numeric value represents a negative value (a value in the red)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "finance"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "(- -)"
}