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Meaning of "trade surplus" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TRADE SURPLUS

trade surplus  [treɪd ˈsɜːpləs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRADE SURPLUS

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Trade surplus is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TRADE SURPLUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

trade surplus

Balance of trade

The commercial balance or net exports, is the difference between the monetary value of exports and imports of output in an economy over a certain period, measured in the currency of that economy. It is the relationship between a nation's imports and exports. A positive balance is known as a trade surplus if it consists of exporting more than is imported; a negative balance is referred to as a trade deficit or, informally, a trade gap. The balance of trade is sometimes divided into a goods and a services balance.

Definition of trade surplus in the English dictionary

The definition of trade surplus in the dictionary is if a country has a trade surplus, it exports more than it imports.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TRADE SURPLUS


army-surplus
ˌɑːmɪˈsɜːpləs
capless
ˈkæpləs
flapless
ˈflæpləs
grapeless
ˈɡreɪpləs
hoopless
ˈhuːpləs
humpless
ˈhʌmpləs
lipless
ˈlɪpləs
napless
ˈnæpləs
peplos
ˈpɛpləs
peplus
ˈpepləs
pipeless
ˈpaɪpləs
scalpless
ˈskælpləs
scapeless
ˈskeɪpləs
shipless
ˈʃɪpləs
slipless
ˈslɪpləs
snapless
ˈsnæpləs
surplus
ˈsɜːpləs
tipless
ˈtɪpləs
trumpless
ˈtrʌmpləs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TRADE SURPLUS

trade gap
trade journal
trade mission
trade name
trade on
trade paper
trade plate
trade price
trade reference
trade returns
trade route
trade school
trade secret
trade talks
trade union
trade unionism
trade unionist
trade up
trade war
trade wind

WORDS THAT END LIKE TRADE SURPLUS

Angelus
army surplus
bacillus
budget surplus
calculus
capital surplus
cost-plus
cumulus
eleven-plus
modulus
nautilus
nonplus
oculus
overplus
periplus
plus
stimulus
stylus
superplus
Tellus

Synonyms and antonyms of trade surplus in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «trade surplus» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TRADE SURPLUS

Find out the translation of trade surplus to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of trade surplus from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «trade surplus» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

贸易顺差
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

superávit comercial
570 millions of speakers

English

trade surplus
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

व्यापार अधिशेष
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الفائض التجاري
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

положительное сальдо торгового баланса
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

superávit de comércio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বাণিজ্য উদ্বৃত্ত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

excédent commercial
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lebihan dagangan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Handelsüberschuss
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

貿易収支の黒字
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

무역 흑자
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Perdagangan surplus
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thặng dư thương mại
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வர்த்தக உபரி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

व्यापार अधिक्य
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ticaret fazlası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

eccedenza di esportazioni
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nadwyżka handlowa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

позитивне сальдо торгового балансу
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

excedent comercial
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Το εμπορικό πλεόνασμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

handelsoorskot
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

handelsöverskott
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

handelsoverskudd
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of trade surplus

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TRADE SURPLUS»

The term «trade surplus» is regularly used and occupies the 94.604 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TRADE SURPLUS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about trade surplus

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRADE SURPLUS»

Discover the use of trade surplus in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to trade surplus and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Trade Surplus in Germany
The relationship between Germany's GDP and its trade surplus can be identified in Exhibit 2 through comparison of their respective graphs. Like the GDP, the trade surplus sees an overall increase during the analysed time period. One issue ...
Jens Hillebrand, 2008
2
Japan: The System That Soured: The Rise and Fall of the ...
In a trading economy, the alternative is a growing trade surplus. Lend the foreigners the excess savings, so that they can buy Japanese exports. This shows up as a big trade surplus and an equally big surge in overseas investments. During ...
John Gay Barbara Bloom Lloyd University of Cambridge African Studies Centre, Richard Katz, 1998
3
Economics: Private and Public Choice
Trade surplus The situation when a country's exports of goods and services are greater than its imports. The right side of Equation 9-2 is also called net capital inflow. Because it is a net figure, it can be either positive (indicating an inflow of ...
James Gwartney, Richard Stroup, Russell Sobel, 2008
4
International Trade in Services and Intangibles in the Era ...
In contrast, the unaffiliated trade surplus in RDT services has been down since 2001, due to the faster growth in ... fees, accounted for most of the trade surplus within private services in 2005 ($33.1 billion and $32.9 billion, respectively).
Marshall Reinsdorf, Matthew J. Slaughter, 2009
5
New Key Geography for GCSE
Ideally a country hopes to have a trade surplus. This means that it will earn more money from the goods that it Patterns of world trade exports than it needs to spend on imports. A country with a trade surplus will become richer and, if the extra ...
David Waugh, Tony Bushell, John Smith, 2002
6
Trade and Investment Relations Among the United States, ...
The growth in trade between the United States and Japan was accompanied by a widening Japanese trade surplus. This trade imbalance rose from $9.9 billion in 1980 to $43 billion in 1985 (see table 3.1 below). Canada was one of the few ...
Robert M. Stern, 1989
7
Macroeconomics the Easy Way
International Trade Absolute Advantage Comparative Advantage Exchange Rates Inflation Trade Surplus Trade Deficit Free Trade vs. Protectionism Tariffs Subsidies Infant industries Every country in the world faces increasing globalization ...
George E. Kroon, 2006
8
The Shifting Structure of China's Trade and Production
China's burgeoning trade surplus and argue that it is at least partly linked to a slowdown in intermediate imports that has not been matched by a commensurate slowdown in final exports. This suggests that the domestic content of China's ...
Li Cui, Murtaza H. Syed, 2007
9
The US-China Trade Dispute: Facts, Figures and Myths
Undervaluation of the yuan is a “reality” indicated by China's massive trade surplus, its enormous foreign exchange reserves, and foreign exchange market intervention. In this section we evaluate these alleged indicators of the yuan.
Imad Moosa, 2012
10
U.S. Trade Shifts in Selected Industries: Merchandise, 1994 ...
The U.S. trade surplus in chemicals and related products increased by $1.3 billion in 1994 over 1993 to $13.5 billion (table 5-1). As shown in table 5-2, both exports and imports increased in every major type of chemical product. The trade  ...
U.S. International Trade Commission

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRADE SURPLUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term trade surplus is used in the context of the following news items.
1
China trade surplus reaches $137bn
China's trade surplus expanded again in the second quarter, providing the economy with a crucial boost ahead of Wednesday's release of growth data. «Financial Times, Jul 15»
2
China reveals near-record trade surplus for May
China's yuan-denominated exports fell by a smaller-than-expected 2.5 percent year-on-year in May, while imports tumbled 17.9 percent, producing a ... «CNBC, Jun 15»
3
Japan records first trade surplus since 2012
Japan has recorded its first trade surplus in three years after the weaker yen ... £1.3bn) in March, beating market expectations for a surplus of 44.6bn yen. «BBC News, Apr 15»
4
China trade surplus slumps 62%
Imports also fell, declining 12.3 per cent to 868.67 billion yuan on-year, the General Administration of Customs said, while the monthly trade surplus plummeted ... «Business Spectator, Apr 15»
5
China trade surplus hits new record as exports grow
China's monthly trade surplus hit a record $60.6bn (£40.3bn) in February, as exports grew and ... The surplus figure stood at $8.9bn in the same period last year. «BBC News, Mar 15»
6
China's Record Trade Surplus Highlights Weak Domestic Demand
(Bloomberg) -- China registered a record trade surplus in January as imports plunged on falling commodity prices and weak domestic demand. Imports fell by ... «Bloomberg, Feb 15»
7
China's Trade Surplus Was Up 45.9% Last Year
Beijing (AFP) - China's trade surplus rose 45.9 percent to 2.35 trillion yuan (around $380 billion) last year as exports grew and imports shrank in the world's ... «Business Insider, Jan 15»
8
China Trade Surplus Climbs to Record as Imports Drop on Oil
8 (Bloomberg) -- China's trade surplus climbed to a record in November after an unexpected decline in imports on lower crude oil and other commodity prices. «Bloomberg, Dec 14»
9
China's trade surplus on rise as exports fare better
China's exports rose 11.6 per cent while its imports increased by 4.6 per cent year on year in October as it recorded a better—than—expected trade surplus of ... «The Hindu, Nov 14»
10
Canada racks up $710M trade surplus in September
Canada reported a trade surplus of $710 million in September, after imports fell ... Canada's trade surplus with that country virtually unchanged in September. «CBC.ca, Nov 14»

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