trade surplus

trade surplus
trade surplus UK US noun [countable] [singular trade surplus plural trade surpluses] economics
a situation in which a country is selling more to other countries than it is buying from them
Thesaurus: international tradehyponym general words for the activity of buying and sellinghyponym

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noun, pl ⋯ -pluses [count]
finance : a situation in which a country sells more to other countries than it buys from other countries : the amount of money by which a country's exports are greater than its imports

The country's trade surplus increased last year.

a trade surplus of almost $10 billion

— opposite trade deficit

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ˌtrade ˈsurplus [trade surplus] noun
a situation in which the value of a country's exports is greater than the value of its imports

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