overseas account

collocation in English

meaningsofoverseasandaccount

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overseas
adjective
adverb
uk
/ˌəʊ.vəˈsiːz/us
/ˌoʊ.vɚˈsiːz/
in, from, or to ...
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account
noun
uk
/əˈkaʊnt/us
/əˈkaʊnt/
an arrangement with a bank to keep your money there and to allow you to take it out when you ...
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(Definition ofoverseasandaccountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The first principle of this plan is to achieve in this country economic independence through the balance of ouroverseasaccountby 1952.
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Another answer would be to offset the declining surplus in oil which is likely to occur on theoverseasaccount.
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In that situation with the oil revenues onoverseasaccountdiminishing, what will take their place?
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We can leave out of account theoverseasaccount.
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Having done that he produced a theory that we were in serious deficit on ouroverseasaccount.
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If there is a surplus of £7 billion in ouroverseasaccount, that means that there must be a deficit of £7 billion in other countries.
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We found a first-class financial crisis in which this country was overspending itself on itsoverseasaccountat a rate higher than £2 million a day.
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A substantial diminution in the oil earnings onoverseasaccountis bound to call in question whether we can maintain that overall surplus.
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There is no other source than that of our manufacturing industries from which we can receive a sufficient increase in overseas earnings to balance ouroverseasaccount.
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On theoverseasaccountin over the past 18 months we have turned a surplus of £400 million into a deficit of £1,200 million—that is a turnover of £1,600 million.
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I mention that only to dismiss any connection there could be between theoverseasaccountand the domestic economy, at any rate in the long run.
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From this follows the interesting fact that ouroverseasaccountwith the rest of the world, outside the hard currency area, just about balanced last year.
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Whereas last year we earned £8 billion net onoverseasaccounton oil, we are now running on a comparable level at something like half that figure.
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The reduction of the deficit in ouroverseasaccountis an encouragement to our people to keep right on to the end of the road to solvency.
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But, furthermore, we face a crisis in ouroverseasaccountwhich necessarily means that the terms of trade have turned against us to a very large degree.
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We shall permanently be in deficit on ouroverseasaccount, always be exposed to violent fluctuations due to foreign financiers' doubts on how we are comporting ourselves.
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Given a united will and a common purpose, we can easily tip the narrow deficit onoverseasaccountpermanently in the right direction and grow rapidly at the same time.
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Before the war, we had a balance of interest payments in our favour in the overseas accounts of£200 million sterling a year.
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Does he know how many airline pilots and people who work abroad have their salaries paid into overseas accounts?
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Therefore, by far the most painless method of balancing our overseas accounts is to earn more by visible and invisible exports.
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