balance of power

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   an equilibrium of power between nations

   Broaderequilibrium

Questions about balance of power

What does balance of power mean?

balance of power means "an equilibrium of power between nations".

Is balance of power a common word?

balance of power 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.