Phrase Hound found 95 phrases and 25 compound words that contain balance. The most common are listed below. Open balance in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 95
- balance sheetA summary of a person's or organization's assets, liabilities and equity as of a specific date.
- balance of powerA situation of equilibrium in which no country is powerful enough to control, or threaten the interests of, the others.
- balance of tradeThe difference between the monetary value of exports and imports in an economy over a certain period of time.
- balance of paymentsA measure of all flows of money into and out of a country including payments for goods and services and capital flows.
- check and balanceProvide mutual oversight and limitation by independent organizations in order to prevent abuses of power.
- balance of terrorThe tenuous peace that existed during the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
- white balanceThe color correction applied to files created by a digital camera. It determines the color temperature of the image based on the type of scene lighting (natural or artificial) and can be selected automatically by the camera (automatic …
- balance sheetsplural of balance sheet: A summary of a person's or organization's assets, liabilities and equity as of a specific date.
- spring balanceA device for measuring weight or force by the elasticity of a spiral spring.
- balance the ticketTo pick a vice-presidential candidate who represents a different constituency than the presidential candidate.
- Account balance
- New Balance
- balance the booksTo add up all the debits and credits.
- balance wheelThe timekeeping device normally used in mechanical watches and small clocks, consisting of a wheel which oscillates due to a coiled spring.
- off balanceNot physically balanced; not having physical equilibrium.
- mass balanceAn application of conservation of mass to the analysis of physical systems, taking into account the material that enters and leaves a system.
- balance transferA transferal of the current amount owing on one credit card to another one (ideally one charging a lower rate of interest)
- work-life balanceThe effective management and equilibrium between the demands of one's work or professional responsibilities and one's personal life.
- balance of probabilitiesA legal standard, applied in many jurisdictions for deciding the outcome of civil disputes, which requires that a dispute be decided in favor of the party whose claims are more likely to be true.
- detailed balancea Markov process is said to show detailed balance if the transition rates between each pair of states i and j in the state space obey
- trial balanceA statement of the balances of all nominal accounts in a double-entry ledger, made to test their equality. The total value of the debits should equal the total of the credits any difference indicates that an error has been made.
- balance beamA gymnastics apparatus, a narrow wooden rail used in artistic (athletic) gymnastics.
- balance outTo attain balance through the contrasting or reciprocating effect of different elements.
- trade balanceThe balance of trade.
- Perfect Balance
Compound words 25
- disbalanceA lack of balance, imbalance.
- balanceableCapable of being balanced.
- balancewiseIn terms of balance.
- equibalanceEqual weight; equiponderance, or unbiasedness.
- acrobalanceA form of exercise or performance involving two or more people performing balances without the use of any props.
- balancementThe act or result of balancing or adjusting; balance.
- balanceweightAlternative form of balance weight: A weight that acts as a counterbalance.
- debalancerSomething that upsets or destroys the balance.
- balancemanA man employed to sit on the trunk of a tree while it is transported and keep it horizontal.
- electrobalanceAn electromagnetic balance that is normally used to weigh material in a vacuum