trade imbalance

collocation in English

meaningsoftradeandimbalance

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trade
adjective
uk
/treɪd/us
/treɪd/
publishingspecialized
used to refer to the publishing of books, etc. that are aimed at the ...
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imbalance
noun[C]
uk
/ˌɪmˈbæl.əns/us
/ˌɪmˈbæl.əns/
a situation in which two things that should be equal or that are normally equal ...
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(Definition oftradeandimbalancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftrade imbalance

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Saving rate alone cannot explain thetradeimbalance.
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Unless the presenttradeimbalanceis improved, no sustained recovery will be possible.
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With the willingness to continue to finance that will come the adjustment in the exchange rate necessary to correct the overall merchandisetradeimbalance.
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Clearly the industry's products and the efficiency cannot be blamed for today'stradeimbalance.
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Ourtradeimbalanceis being happily financed, but markets are fickle and moods change.
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Since 1979 in this country, as has been said, there has been atradeimbalancein tourism.
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If we merely had a regional and atradeimbalance, the situation would be noteworthy but not as serious as the real one.
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Whether one can continue to finance that kind oftradeimbalancefor very much longer is open to question.
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It is not only our public finances and ourtradeimbalancewhich embarrass our country.
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There seems to be atradeimbalancein vets.
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The same error that may overstate atradeimbalancemay underestimate it.
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A much more serious issue is thetradeimbalance.
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Can she give an undertaking that she will tackle thetradeimbalance?
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Therefore, we shall have gigantic problems of atradeimbalancefor years to come.
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But the best way to correct thetradeimbalanceis to expand exports.
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Import substitution will help us a great deal and narrow thetradeimbalance.
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It is not simply that we need to do something to rectify thetradeimbalance.
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This major turnround was not accompanied by an equivalenttradeimbalancewith the rest of the world.
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That is surprising, because thetradeimbalanceis not a small matter.
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With thetradeimbalanceof the size that we have at present, that cannot be right.
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