external balance

collocation in English

meaningsofexternalandbalance

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external
adjective
uk
/ɪkˈstɜː.nəl/us
/ɪkˈstɝː.nəl/
of, on, for, or coming from ...
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balance
noun
uk
/ˈbæl.əns/us
/ˈbæl.əns/
a state where things are of equal weight ...
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(Definition ofexternalandbalancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofexternal balance

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Disinflation remained the major goal, butexternalbalanceand the level of foreign exchange reserves increased their importance as policy constraints.
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They also want to punish countries that will not lower wages in order to regain theirexternalbalance.
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We do not aim to balance our trade country by country, but to achieve a satisfactory position in our totalexternalbalanceof payments.
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But there is one element in ourexternalbalanceof payments where an almost immediate result could be produced.
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All that illustrates that the beginning of our problems was the predominance given to internal economic aims overexternalbalance.
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For a deficit country to fix its exchange rate is, in effect, to deprive itself of the one effective mechanism for returning intoexternalbalance.
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Our aim is to achieveexternalbalanceover a two-year period—that is, by the end of 1966.
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I would add one or two further comments on this subject of theexternalbalance.
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Briefly, the first problem is that of filling the gap in ourexternalbalanceof trade.
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First, this is obviously because theexternalbalancewill be less favourable.
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A return to a more normal level will not affect theexternalbalance.
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Will the measures which have been adopted so far be sufficient to check the inflation and restore health to theexternalbalance?
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This country was last inexternalbalancein 1972.
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What effect upon theexternalbalancedoes he anticipate from a return to a more normal level?
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In ourexternalbalance, we were in a healthier position than we had been in any year since 1913.
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The first priority must be to improve ourexternalbalanceof payments and to build up our external reserves.
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It is ludicrous to try to get anexternalbalanceon the basis of deflating our domestic arrangements.
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My other suggestions on theexternalbalancerelate first to defence and secondly to aid.
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I welcome the juxtaposition in paragraph 5, of the internal anti-inflationary policy with theexternalbalanceof payments policy.
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They have not been half careful enough about theirexternalbalance.
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