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struck a balance

struck a balance is the simple past and past participle of strike a balance.

Meaning of strike a balance

Verb

strike a balance (third-person singular simple present strikes a balance, present participle striking a balance, simple past struck a balance, past participle struck a balance or (rare or archaic) stricken a balance)

  1. To find a compromise between two conflicting things; to choose a moderate option between two extremes.
    • You should try to strike a balance between your social life and work life.
    Synonyms:
    strike a medium
  2. To bring out the relative state of a debtor and creditor account.
    • I'd like to wind up the accounts before—before—well, this time I shan't wait till the new year to strike a balance.c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act...

Questions about struck a balance

What is struck a balance the simple past and past participle of?
Struck a balance is the simple past and past participle of strike a balance.

Words near struck a balance in the dictionary

  1. Strubes
  2. Struble
  3. Strubles
  4. strubs
  5. struck
  6. struck a balance
  7. struck a bargain
  8. struck a blow
  9. struck a chord
  10. struck a false note
  11. struck a light

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