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

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

But the dollar gap is still big; in 1953 the U.S. exported $16 billion in goods while importing $11 billion, leaving a gap of $5 billion.

From Time Magazine Archive

They are in grave financial trouble, and many are searching frantically to close a dollar gap that threatens their very existence.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Among the charges that the Princeton critics leveled against the report was that, in keeping with its general timidity, it treated the "dollar gap" as the basic problem, and closing the gap as the solution.

From Time Magazine Archive