dollar gap

American  

noun

1. the difference, measured in U.S. dollars, between the earnings of a foreign country through sales and investments in the U.S. and the payments made by that country to the U.S.

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Etymology

Origin of dollar gap

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

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dollar gap

The state, he added, “has to come up with some bigger solutions — a $15 billion dollar gap is too much to ignore.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2015

With foreign aid scheduled to be cut drastically this year, foreign nations will be able to close the dollar gap only by bigger sales in the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the dollar gap has since become a dollar glut.

From Time Magazine Archive

Out of the committee's desperate search for new sources of revenue to bridge this six-or-seven-hundred million dollar gap arose last week a new and striking sentiment in favor of some form of Sales Tax.

From Time Magazine Archive

Canada is one of the few countries to solve her "dollar gap" without direct U.S. loans and grants.

From Time Magazine Archive