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counterbalance
verb. offset an action
  • amend
  • atone for
  • balance
  • cancel
  • compensate
  • correct
  • counteract
  • counterpoise
  • countervail
  • equalize
  • make up for
  • outweigh
  • rectify
  • redeem
  • set off

cover
verb. fill in for, compensate
  • balance
  • counterbalance
  • double for
  • insure
  • make good
  • make up for
  • offset
  • relieve
  • stand in for
  • substitute
  • take over
  • take the rap for

credit
noun. deferred payment arrangement; assets
  • balance
  • bond
  • capital outlay
  • continuance
  • debenture
  • extension
  • installment buying
  • installment plan
  • lien
  • loan
  • mortgage
  • on account
  • on the arm
  • on the cuff
  • plastic
  • respite
  • securities
  • stock
  • surplus cash
  • tab
  • trust
  • wealth

earnings
noun. money for work performed
  • balance
  • bottom line
  • emolument
  • gain
  • gate
  • groceries
  • in the black
  • income
  • lucre
  • net
  • pay
  • payoff
  • piece of the pie
  • proceeds
  • profit
  • receipts
  • remuneration
  • return
  • revenue
  • reward
  • salary
  • salt
  • stipend
  • take-home
  • takings
  • wages

equal
verb. make even, be even with
  • agree
  • amount to
  • approach
  • balance
  • be commensurate
  • be identical
  • be level
  • be tantamount
  • break even
  • come up to
  • compare
  • comprise
  • consist of
  • coordinate
  • correspond
  • emulate
  • equalize
  • equate
  • equipoise
  • equiponderate
  • keep pace with
  • level
  • live up to
  • match
  • measure up
  • meet
  • parallel
  • partake of
  • rank with
  • reach
  • rise to
  • rival
  • run abreast
  • square with
  • tally
  • tie
  • touch

excess
noun. overabundance of something
  • balance
  • by-product
  • enough
  • exorbitance
  • exuberance
  • fat
  • fulsomeness
  • glut
  • inundation
  • lavishness
  • leavings
  • leftover
  • luxuriance
  • nimiety
  • overdose
  • overflow
  • overkill
  • overload
  • overmuch
  • overrun
  • oversupply
  • overweight
  • plenty
  • plethora
  • profusion
  • recrement
  • redundance
  • redundancy
  • refuse
  • remainder
  • residue
  • rest
  • spare
  • superabundance
  • supererogation
  • superfluity
  • surfeit
  • surplus
  • the limit
  • too much
  • too much of a good thing
  • waste
  • wastefulness

grace
noun. charm, loveliness
  • address
  • adroitness
  • agility
  • allure
  • attractiveness
  • balance
  • beauty
  • breeding
  • comeliness
  • consideration
  • cultivation
  • decency
  • decorum
  • dexterity
  • dignity
  • ease
  • elegance
  • etiquette
  • finesse
  • finish
  • form
  • gracefulness
  • lissomeness
  • lithesomeness
  • mannerliness
  • manners
  • nimbleness
  • pleasantness
  • pliancy
  • poise
  • polish
  • propriety
  • refinement
  • shapeliness
  • smoothness
  • style
  • suppleness
  • symmetry
  • tact
  • tastefulness

hesitate
verb. wait; be uncertain
  • alternate
  • balance
  • balk
  • be irresolute
  • be reluctant
  • be unwilling
  • blow hot and cold
  • dally
  • debate
  • defer
  • delay
  • demur
  • dillydally
  • dither
  • doubt
  • equivocate
  • falter
  • flounder
  • fluctuate
  • fumble
  • hang
  • hang back
  • hedge
  • hem and haw
  • hold back
  • hold off
  • hover
  • linger
  • oscillate
  • pause
  • ponder
  • pull back
  • pussyfoot
  • scruple
  • seesaw
  • shift
  • shrink
  • shy away
  • sit on fence
  • stammer
  • stop
  • straddle
  • stumble
  • stutter
  • swerve
  • tergiversate
  • think about
  • think twice
  • vacillate
  • waffle
  • waver
  • weigh

keep up
verb. maintain, sustain
  • balance
  • compete
  • contend
  • continue
  • emulate
  • go on
  • hold on
  • keep pace
  • keep step
  • match
  • pace
  • persevere
  • preserve
  • rival
  • run with
  • vie
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Word Origin & History

balance late 13c., "apparatus for weighing," from O.Fr. balance (12c.) "balance, scales for weighing," also in the figurative sense; from M.L. bilancia, from L.L. bilanx (acc. bilancem), from L. (libra) bilanx "(scale) having two pans," possibly from L. bis "twice" + lanx "dish, plate, scale of a balance." The accounting sense is from 1580s; the meaning "general harmony between parts" is from 1732; sense of "physical equipoise" is from 1660s. The verb is attested from 1570s. Balance of power in the geopolitical sense is from 1701; balanced meal, diet, etc. is from 1908.

Example Sentences for balance

I afterward sold their horse, and sent them the balance of the proceeds.

To make the balance even you have twenty years still to serve.'

What can be done to balance the cost of foods used in a meal?

He had weighed himself in the balance, and found himself wanting.

His mind at this period was evidently shaken in some degree from its balance.

He swung off, got his balance, and ran swiftly down the platform.

She looked at him, as if her life lay in the balance of what she might read in his face.

At the lowest mark, the balance will be even, and there'll be no obligation at all.

If so, let me know the balance that I owe you, when we next meet.

Not that I do not leave a balance to be settled one day, Pecksniff.'

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