Definition of trade deficit in US English:
 trade deficit
nounˌtreɪd ˈdɛfəsətˌtrād ˈdefəsət
The amount by which the cost of a country's imports exceeds the value of its exports.
 Example sentencesExamples
-  Here is a question, the American's run a huge trade deficit and the dollar is strong.
 -  Today, by contrast, the current account deficit is larger than the trade deficit.
 -  Just to define the terms a little bit, the trade deficit is the excess of our imports of goods over our exports of goods.
 -  Despite a falling dollar, the U.S. trade deficit has continued to increase to new record levels.
 -  Another is our exploding trade deficit and the rising export of American wealth overseas.
 -  The trade deficit has been a thorn in the side of the U.S. economy for the past seven years.
 -  The higher trade deficit, which may emerge from rising crude oil prices, is also manageable.
 -  If exports exceed imports, there is a trade surplus and if imports exceed exports, there is a trade deficit.
 -  I'm not at all worried about the budget or the dollar or the trade deficit or any of that stuff.
 -  It is not just a trade deficit as a result of imports growing faster than exports.
 -  In years long past the trade deficit would rise and fall with the value of the dollar in a natural rhythm.
 -  The dollar has depreciated largely because of the size of the US trade deficit.
 -  I know I should be really worried about the trade deficit and consumer debt.
 -  A bilateral trade deficit is what you spend with a particular trading partner, less what you earn from them.
 -  Yet the trade deficit is a misleading gauge of the nation's economic health.
 -  With a trade deficit of $1 billion a day, it was clear that the US was living beyond its means.
 -  He believes that as the trade deficit increases the dollar will continue to slide.
 -  Conversely, the trade deficit itself might be contributing to the productivity boom.
 -  Thus they ultimately contribute to growing budget and trade deficit and foreign debt.
 -  The balance of payments deficit now includes a trade deficit, which was not the case forty years ago.