balance_of_payments has definitions from the field of economics
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[ noun ] (economics) a system of recording all of a country's economic transactions with the rest of the world over a period of one year

Examples

"a favorable balance of payments exists when more payments are coming in than going out"

Used in print

(Max F. Millikan and Donald L. M. Blackmer,...)

Finally , a balance must be effected among project finance , utilization of agricultural surpluses , and general balance_of_payments support .

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