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📖 Определения и значения для слова balance

📒 a situation in which different things exist in equal, correct or good amounts

  • This newspaper maintains a good balance in its presentation of different opinions.
  • Tourists often disturb the delicate balance of nature on the island.
  • His wife's death disturbed the balance of his mind.

📒 the ability to keep steady with an equal amount of weight on each side of the body

  • Athletes need a good sense of balance.
  • I struggled to keep my balance on my new skates.
  • She cycled round the corner, lost her balance and fell off.

📒 the amount that is left after taking numbers or money away from a total

  • to check your bank balance (= to find out how much money there is in your account)
  • Consider a balance transfer to a credit card with a lower rate of interest (= = moving the amount owed from one card to another).
  • Everyone likes to have a healthy bank balance.

📒 an amount of money still owed after some payment has been made

  • The balance of $500 must be paid within 90 days.
  • I'll pay the balance later.
  • The final balance is due six weeks before departure.

📒 the largest part of a group or an amount; the position of advantage or attention

  • The balance of opinion was that work was more important than leisure.
  • The balance has now shifted from the unions to employers.
  • The balance of economists are expecting a rise in interest rates.

📒 an instrument for weighing things, with a bar that is supported in the middle and has dishes hanging from each end

📒 (considering) the evidence on both sides of an argument, to find the most likely reason for or result of something

  • The balance of evidence suggests the Liberal party's decline began before the First World War.
  • The coroner thought that on the balance of probabilities, the pilot had suffered a stroke just before the crash.

📒 if the future of something/somebody, or the result of something is/hangs in the balance, it is not certain

  • The long-term future of the space programme hangs in the balance.
  • Tom’s life hung in the balance for two weeks as he lay in a coma.

📒 to make somebody unsteady and in danger of falling

  • I was thrown off balance by the sudden gust of wind.
  • The sudden movement threw him off balance.

📒 to make somebody surprised and no longer calm

  • The senator was clearly caught off balance by the unexpected question.

📒 after considering all the information

  • On balance, the company has had a successful year.

📒 to make a situation equal or fair again

  • For years poorer children have had to put up with a lower quality education, and now is the time to redress the balance.

📒 to manage to find a way of being fair to two things that are opposed to each other; to find an acceptable position that is between two things

  • We need to strike a balance between these conflicting interests.

📒 to affect the result of something in one way rather than another

  • In an interview, smart presentation can tip the balance in your favour.
  • New evidence tipped the balance against the prosecution.
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