柯林斯詞典balance of payments (balances of payments) 1. N-COUNT A country's balance of payments is the difference, over a period of time, between the payments it makes to other countries for imports and the payments it receives from other countries for exports. 國際收支差額[商業(yè)] ...the chronic American balance-of-payments deficit of the 1960s. …20世紀(jì)60年代美國長期的國際收支赤字。 返回 balance of payments劍橋詞典the difference between the money that a country receives from exports and the money that it spends on imports 國際收支差額 返回 balance of payments