balance-of-payments problem

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

   Broaderproblem

Questions about balance-of-payments problem

What does balance-of-payments problem mean?

balance-of-payments problem means "an economic problem caused by payments for imports being greater than receipts for exports".

Is balance-of-payments problem a common word?

balance-of-payments problem is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.