See Also: Dollar drain(finance)
Dollar Drain(money)
DRAIN(law)
Drain(medicine)
drain(1)(dictionary)
drain(2)(dictionary)
Drain(health)
drain board(dictionary)
sump drain(medicine)
drain 1, verb(dictionary)

bacillary (iou) and Dollar drain (finance)


bacillary (iou)



bacillary adjective. M19.
[from late Latin BACILLUS + -ARY1.]
Of, pertaining to, or consisting of little rods. M19.
Of, pertaining to, or of the Nature of bacilli; caused by bacilli. L19.
bacillary white diarrhoea = PULLORUM DISEASE.
bacillar adjective = BACILLARY 2 L19.
bacilliform adjective rod-shaped M19.

Dollar drain (finance)


The impact of importing from foreign countries more than exporting to them. The money required to finance the import purchases removes dollars from the importing nation.