| trade gap | |
| —n | |
| the amount by which the value of a country's visible imports exceeds that of visible exports; an unfavourable balance of trade | |
| trade gap | |
noun | |
| the difference in value over a period of time of a country's imports and exports of merchandise; "a nation's balance of trade is favorable when its exports exceed its imports" [syn: balance of trade] |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |