unfavourable balance
noun[C]
ACCOUNTINGUK(USunfavorable balance)ukus→adverse balance
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unfavourable balance
Sixth to restrict the imports of goods which createunfavourablebalanceof payments.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.If you have a favourable balance in one country, you must have anunfavourablebalancesomewhere else.
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It increased theunfavourablebalanceof trade, discouraged domestic manufactures, and promoted luxury.
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The ruin of countries often predicted from the doctrine of anunfavourablebalanceof trade, 202.
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We certainly have anunfavourablebalanceof visible trade with three out of the four.
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The figures given about anunfavourablebalancewere correct.
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They find a situation where they have an extremelyunfavourablebalanceof payments which they feel that they have to try and correct.
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With anunfavourablebalanceof payments on industrial account, it is obviously impossible for us to go on investing overseas in that way.
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The difference between the figures overstates theunfavourablebalanceof trade because of the differences in valuation.
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If sterling products fall in value, there is anunfavourablebalanceof payments because we do not have the dollar earnings.
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