trade deficit
noun
finance
: a situation in which a country buys more from other countries than it sells to other countries : the amount of money by which a country's imports are greater than its exports
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Trump insists that trillions in new investment are flowing in, the trade deficit is shrinking, and the nation is flush enough to consider mailing out checks.
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Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2025
India’s trade deficit with China has only increased in the last few years.
—Tanvi Madan, Foreign Affairs, 24 Sep. 2025
Trump says the nation’spersistent trade deficit and the flow of fentanyl into the United States qualify as such an emergency.
—Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
If the deficit remains high, and the president successfully turns the trade deficit into a trade surplus, then the fundamental macroeconomic relationship requires that net savings surge.
—Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
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Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2025
India’s trade deficit with China has only increased in the last few years.
—Tanvi Madan, Foreign Affairs, 24 Sep. 2025
Trump says the nation’spersistent trade deficit and the flow of fentanyl into the United States qualify as such an emergency.
—Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
If the deficit remains high, and the president successfully turns the trade deficit into a trade surplus, then the fundamental macroeconomic relationship requires that net savings surge.
—Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for trade deficit
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“Trade deficit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trade%20deficit. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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