BALANCE-OF-PAYMENTS PROBLEM

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An economic problem caused by payments for imports being greater than receipts for exports

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("balance-of-payments problem" is a kind of...):

job; problem (a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved)

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