invisible balance

British  

noun

1. economics the difference in value between total exports of services plus payment of property incomes from abroad and total imports of services plus payment abroad of property incomes Compare balance of trade

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Example Sentences

They were clenching around the corners of an invisible balance beam.

From New York Times

The work, as he put it wryly, involved “invisible materials being weighed with an invisible balance.”

From Literature

The envied and the envious walked there, and there hung the sword of Damocles and the invisible balances.

From Project Gutenberg

There is nothing so delicate, so fragile, as that invisible balance upon which the mind is always trembling.

From Project Gutenberg