balance of payments

1. N-COUNT A country's balance of payments is the difference, over a period of time, between the payments it makes to other countries for imports and the payments it receives from other countries for exports. 國(guó)際收支差額[商業(yè)]

...the chronic American balance-of-payments deficit of the 1960s. …20世紀(jì)60年代美國(guó)長(zhǎng)期的國(guó)際收支赤字。