Usually means: Equilibrium between contrasting forces or elements.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. balances: Merriam-Webster
  2. balances: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Balances, balances: Vocabulary.com
  4. Balance's, Balances, balance's, balances: Wordnik
  5. balances: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. balances: Wiktionary
  7. balances: Dictionary.com
  8. balances: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. balances: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. balances: Legal dictionary
  2. balances: Financial dictionary
  3. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. balances: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. balances: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. balances: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. balances: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Balances: Smith's Bible Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (balance)

noun:  (uncountable) A state in which opposing forces harmonise; equilibrium.
noun:  (uncountable) Mental equilibrium; mental health; calmness, a state of remaining clear-headed and unperturbed.
noun:  (literally or figuratively) Something of equal weight used to provide equilibrium; counterweight.
noun:  A pair of scales.
noun:  (uncountable) Awareness of both viewpoints or matters; neutrality; rationality; objectivity.
noun:  (uncountable) The overall result of conflicting forces, opinions etc.; the influence which ultimately "weighs" more than others.
noun:  (uncountable) Apparent harmony in art (between differing colours, sounds, etc.).
noun:  (accounting) A list accounting for the debits on one side, and for the credits on the other.
noun:  (accounting) The result of such a procedure; the difference between credit and debit of an account.
noun:  (watchmaking) A device used to regulate the speed of a watch, clock etc.
noun:  (law, business, statistics) The remainder.
noun:  (obsolete, astrology) Libra.
verb:  (transitive) To bring (items) to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To make (concepts) agree.
verb:  (transitive) To hold (an object or objects) precariously; to support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling.
verb:  (transitive) To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate.
verb:  (transitive, dance) To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally.
verb:  (nautical) To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass.
verb:  (transitive) To make the credits and debits of (an account) correspond.
verb:  (intransitive) To be in equilibrium.
verb:  (intransitive) To have matching credits and debits.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To weigh in a balance.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To hesitate or fluctuate.
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