Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
the difference in value over a period of time of a country's imports and exports of merchandise;
- Example: "a nation's balance of trade is favorable when its exports exceed its imports"[syn: balance of trade, trade balance, visible balance, trade gap]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
trade gap
n 1: the difference in value over a period of time of a
country's imports and exports of merchandise; "a nation's
balance of trade is favorable when its exports exceed its
imports" [syn: balance of trade, trade balance,
visible balance, trade gap]