Usually means: Required minimum bank account balance.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. compensating balance: Merriam-Webster
  2. compensating balance: Vocabulary.com
  3. compensating balance: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. compensating balance: Dictionary.com
  5. compensating balance: Rhymezone
  6. compensating balance: FreeDictionary.org
  7. compensating balance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  8. compensating balance: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. compensating balance: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Compensating balance: bizterms.net
  4. compensating balance: Finance-Glossary.com
  5. compensating balance: Financial dictionary

(Note: See compensating_balances as well.)

Definitions from WordNet (compensating balance)

noun:  a minimum credit balance that a bank may require a borrower to keep on deposit as a condition for granting a loan; a common requirement for establishing a line of credit at a bank ("The compensating balance increases the effective interest rate to the bank since the net amount loaned is reduced but the interest paid is unchanged")


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