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1. (n.) deficit
the amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required amount.
2. deficit
a loss, as in the operation of a business.
3. deficit
the amount by which liabilities exceed assets.
4. deficit
a deficiency.
5. deficit
a disadvantage or handicap.
Etymology: (1775–85; < L dēficit (it) lacks, 3rd pers. sing. pres. indic. of dēficere)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) deficit, shortage, shortfall
the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required
"new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit"
2. (noun) deficit
a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning
"the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory"; "they have serious linguistic deficits"
3. (noun) deficit
(sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing
4. (noun) deficit
an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period)
"last year there was a serious budgetary deficit"
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1. (noun) deficit
when the amount of money spent is more than the amount earned
the country's budget/trade deficit
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) Deficit
deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack; as, a deficit in taxes, revenue, etc
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Sense: the amount by which an amount (of money etc) is less than the amount required
a deficit of several hundred dollars.
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 Afrikaans: tekort, nadelige saldo, a |
 Arabic: عَجْز مالي |
 Bulgarian: дефицит |
 Brazilian: déficit |
 Czech: schodek |
 German: das Defizit |
 Danish: underskud; minus |
 Greek: έλλειμμα |
 Spanish: déficit |
 Estonian: puudujääk |
 Farsi: کمبود؛ کسری |
 Finnish: vaje |
 French: déficit |
 Hebrew: גִירָעוֹן |
 Hindi: घाटा |
 Croatian: manjak |
 Hungarian: deficit |
 Indonesian: defisit |
 Icelandic: vöntun; (tekju)halli |
 Italian: deficit |
 Japanese: 赤字 |
 Korean: 적자 |
 Lithuanian: stoka, deficitas |
 Latvian: deficīts, iztrūkums |
 Malay: kekurangan |
 Dutch: deficit |
 Norwegian: underskudd, manko |
 Polish: niedobór |
 Persian: کمبود؛ کسری |
 Pashto: كسر(په تېره بيا په عايدات |
 Portuguese: défice |
 Romanian: deficit |
 Russian: дефицит |
 Slovak: deficit |
 Slovenian: primanjkljaj |
 Serbian: deficit |
 Swedish: underskott, brist, defici |
 Thai: การขาดทุน |
 Turkish: açık, noksan |
 Taiwanese: 虧空額，赤字 |
 Ukrainian: брак; дефіцит |
 Urdu: خسارہ |
 Vietnamese: số tiền thiếu hụt |
 Chinese: 亏空额，赤字 |
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