balance of payments

Other forms: balances of payments

Definitions of balance of payments
  1. noun
    a system of recording all of a country's economic transactions with the rest of the world over a period of one year
    “a favorable balance of payments exists when more payments are coming in than going out”
    synonyms: balance of international payments
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    type of:
    accounting
    a system that provides quantitative information about finances
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