Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
balance . - noun An action wherein someone
balances or something is balanced
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun getting two things to correspond
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Examples
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My take on this is: I don't like the phrase 'balancing work and family' and the reason is because it sets up this idea for me of the scales of justice where one side is work, one side family, and they get equal time.
White House correspondent Norah O'Donnell keeps it all in balance 2011
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Back in Massachusetts, that's what they call balancing the ticket.
Hullabaloo 2005
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Back in Massachusetts, that's what they call balancing the ticket.
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Back in Massachusetts, that's what they call balancing the ticket.
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Big concerns get out what they call a balancing sheet every day yet, and we are lucky if we do it oncet a year already.
Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures Montague Glass 1905
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Sometimes her balancing is cloddish (as deliciously cheesy as it is, her snap 'n b spin on Foreigner's "I Want To Know What Love Is" feels like a forced union of Old Mariah and New Mariah), and sometimes it's acrobatic.
fourfour: 2009
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Monthly update: Entrepreneurs get lesson in balancing work, life; see video
Money News: Financial, Economy, Stock Market & Real Estate Stories 2010
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Monthly update: Entrepreneurs get lesson in balancing work, life; see video
Money News: Financial, Economy, Stock Market & Real Estate Stories 2010
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Could I do any worse a job in balancing our state budget?
Vernon R. Hayes Jr. (R) Post 2010
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Moreover, gimmicks and tricks must be avoided in balancing the budget, such as counting nonexistent federal funds that have not been appropriated by Congress.
Vernon R. Hayes Jr. (R) Post 2010
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