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balance the sheets

balance the sheets verb: to improve the financial state of an organization or individual so they are no longer operating at a loss.

Verb

balance the sheets (third-person singular simple present balances the sheets, present participle balancing the sheets, simple past and past participle balanced the sheets)

  1. To improve the financial state of an organization or individual so they are no longer operating at a loss.
    • Both deficit reduction and systemic reform, you see, require identifying "losers" — those who must give up something to balance the sheets.2011, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Budget, Concurrent Resolution on the Budget Fiscal Year 2012, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 281
    • This is reduced to turning the screw on the workers in search of what is described as higher productivity and sustaining foreign competition, but what amounts to increasing the wealth of the capitalist class, overaccumulation of capital, economic crises and a need to turn the screw even more to...2015, Ewa Mazierska, From Self-fulfilment to Survival of the Fittest, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 225

Forms of balance the sheets

third-person singular presentbalances the sheets
present participlebalancing the sheets
past participlebalanced the sheets
pastbalanced the sheets

Questions about balance the sheets

What does balance the sheets mean?
Balance the sheets means to improve the financial state of an organization or individual so they are no longer operating at a loss.
What part of speech is balance the sheets?
Balance the sheets is a verb.
What is the past tense of balance the sheets?
The past tense of balance the sheets is balanced the sheets.

Words near balance the sheets in the dictionary

  1. balance sheet
  2. balance sheet equation
  3. balance sheet equations
  4. balance sheets
  5. balance the books
  6. balance the sheets
  7. balance the ticket
  8. balance transfer
  9. balance transfers
  10. balance up
  11. balance weight

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