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imbalance

[im-bal-uhns]

noun

  1. the state or condition of lacking balance, as in proportion or distribution.

  2. faulty muscular or glandular coordination.



imbalance

/ ɪˈæəԲ /

noun

  1. a lack of balance, as in emphasis, proportion, etc

    the political imbalance of the programme

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of imbalance1

First recorded in 1895–1900; im- 2 + balance
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That imbalance, which CMS describes as a loophole, is one of the main things Republicans are trying to change.

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He added: "If you find a street where only five of fifty houses are occupied by local people, then I think there is an imbalance which is storing up trouble."

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Arnold Schwarzenegger asserted that the imbalance was the cause of the state’s budget deficit.

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SafeSport is tasked with an immense, difficult, and delicate responsibility — to adjudicate cases of abuse and help correct decades of imbalance in a system that protected predators instead of athletes.

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Having traveled to Washington, D.C., to lobby for federal NIL legislation, Jarmond said he believed it was necessary to eliminate the imbalance that exists with more than 30 states having their own NIL laws.

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