BALANCE-OF-PAYMENTS PROBLEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does balance-of-payments problem mean? 

• BALANCE-OF-PAYMENTS PROBLEM (noun)
  The noun BALANCE-OF-PAYMENTS PROBLEM has 1 sense:

1. an economic problem caused by payments for imports being greater than receipts for exports

  Familiarity information: BALANCE-OF-PAYMENTS PROBLEM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BALANCE-OF-PAYMENTS PROBLEM (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)