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trade deficit — ➔ deficit * * * trade deficit UK US noun [C, usually singular] (also trade gap) ECONOMICS, COMMERCE, FINANCE ► a situation in which the value of goods that a country imports is more than the value of goods it exports, or the size of this… … Financial and business terms
trade deficit — noun an excess of imports over exports • Hypernyms: ↑deficit * * * noun, pl ⋯ cits [count] finance : a situation in which a country buys more from other countries than it sells to other countries : the amount of money by which a country s imports … Useful english dictionary
trade deficit — noun A negative balance of trade. Ant: trade surplus … Wiktionary
trade — The act or the business of buying and selling for money; traffic; barter. May v. Sloan, 101 U.S. 231, 25 L.Ed. 797. Purchase and sale of goods and services between businesses, states or nations. Trade is not a technical word and is ordinarily… … Black's law dictionary
trade surplus — UK US noun [countable] [singular trade surplus plural trade surpluses] economics a situation in which a country is selling more to other countries than it is buying from them Thesaurus: international trade … Useful english dictionary
Deficit spending — Part of a series on Government Public finance … Wikipedia
surplus — ▪ I. surplus sur‧plus 1 [ˈsɜːpləs ǁ ˈsɜːr ] noun 1. [countable, uncountable] ECONOMICS an amount of something that is more than what is wanted, needed, or used: • Sugar prices fell after revised estimates of the surplus for the current crop year … Financial and business terms
deficit — An excess of liabilities ( liability) over assets, of losses over profits, or of expenditure over income. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary A situation in which a country has a negative balance of trade or payments. Chicago Mercantile Exchange… … Financial and business terms
Trade policy of Japan — Export policiesFor many years, export promotion was a large issue in Japanese government policy. Government officials recognized that Japan needed to import to grow and develop, and it needed to generate exports to pay for those imports. After… … Wikipedia
Deficit — An excess of liabilities over assets, of losses over profits, or of expenditure over income. The New York Times Financial Glossary * * * deficit def‧i‧cit [ˈdefst] written abbreviation def noun [countable] 1. COMMERCE an amount of money that a… … Financial and business terms
