external account
noun[S]
ukusECONOMICS
→balance of payments current account
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external account
Major short-term concerns are the rising fiscal deficit and the deterioration in theexternalaccountbalance.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.On anexternalaccount, they alter how they respond to signals concerning language membership.
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This might be called anexternalaccountof the relationship.
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Specifically, the sawmillers preferred to enjoy the tax rebates based on volumes exported, and could retain 20-35 per cent of the export earnings in anexternalaccount.
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For example, every attempt to reduce a deficit onexternalaccounttends inevitably to increase inflationary pressure at home.
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We are trying to restrain the volume of home demand to prevent it over-running and thereby creating intolerable difficulties for our currency onexternalaccount.
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Also, on our general sterlingexternalaccount, it is a truism to say that our reserves are too low for comfort, even for security.
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Both have now become a singleexternalaccount, the sterling of which is now freely transferable between non-residents.
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Inflows of "hot money" can temporarily balance a country'sexternalaccount.
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My third point is about the imbalances on theexternalaccount.
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