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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BALANCING

ppr. Charging with equal weights; being in a state of equipoise; bringing to a state of equality; regulating respective forces or sums to make them equal; settling; adjusting; paying a difference of accounts; hesitating; contracting a sail by rolling up one corner of it.

 

BALANCING

n.Equilibrium; poise.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

balancing act

bal anc ing act |ˈbælənsɪŋ ækt | noun an action or activity that requires a delicate balance between different situations or requirements: our balancing act between working more to buy luxuries and having enough leisure to enjoy them.

 

Oxford Dictionary

balancing act

bal |an ¦cing act noun an action or activity that requires a delicate balance between different situations or requirements.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

balancing act

b l an cing ct 名詞 C 〖通例単数形で 〗(対立する )両者を喜ばせる行為 .