Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A lack of balance, as in distribution or functioning.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Defective balance; specifically, a lack of equality in the tension and contractile strength of the eve-muscles, leading to heterophoria.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The property of not being in
balance .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (mathematics) a lack of symmetry
- noun a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium
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Examples
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With all seriousness, a man with some type of chemical brain imbalance is in charge of the most powerful post in the world.
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I would guess the imbalance is a relic of history and Law.
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To call Obama a socialist because he wants to redress this imbalance is as accurate as calling McCain an oligarch because he doesn't.
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Medicare and Medicaid face a very substantial long-term imbalance, and are at the heart of our long-term fiscal imbalance, which is the motivation for moving to a different structure in those programs.
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Currently, gas tax funds are dedicated to municipalities with transit systems, which he called an "imbalance."
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The show has pulled it off so far, but that kind of imbalance is hard to maintain over the long run.
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But labor and management are more often than not in imbalance, wages growing more slowly with reference to productivity gains.
Stephen Herrington: Open Wide, Minimum Wage Is Good For You Stephen Herrington 2010
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But Democrats should admit America's economic structure has become dangerously unbalanced -- more unbalanced than it's been in 80 years -- and the imbalance is making it difficult if not impossible for the nation to emerge from recession.
Robert Reich: Why Democrats Should Not Join in Economic Scapegoating Robert Reich 2010
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But Democrats should admit America's economic structure has become dangerously unbalanced -- more unbalanced than it's been in 80 years -- and the imbalance is making it difficult if not impossible for the nation to emerge from recession.
Robert Reich: Why Democrats Should Not Join in Economic Scapegoating Robert Reich 2010
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The whole point of our current trade imbalance is that our volume of exports to China is relatively tiny.
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