Definitions for deficit
ˈdɛf ə sɪt; Brit. also dɪˈfɪs ɪtdeficit

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 4 votes

1. deficit, shortage, shortfallnoun

   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. deficitnoun

   a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning

   "the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory"; "they have serious linguistic deficits"

3. deficitnoun

   (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing

4. deficitnoun

   an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period)

   "last year there was a serious budgetary deficit"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. deficitnoun

   Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack.

2. deficitnoun

   A situation wherein, or amount whereby, spending exceeds government revenue.

3. Etymology: From déficit, from deficit.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Deficit

   A deficit is the amount by which a sum falls short of some reference amount.

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1. deficit

   A deficit is the amount by which a sum of money, or cost, falls short of the required or expected amount. It typically refers to a shortfall in a budget, when expenses exceed income or outlay surpasses inflow. It can also refer to any situation where there is a lack of something or an insufficiency.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Deficitnoun

   deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack; as, a deficit in taxes, revenue, etc

2. Etymology: [Lit., it is wanting, 3d person pres. indic. of L. deficere, cf. F. dficit. See Defect.]

Matched Categories

1. • Insufficiency
   • Lack
   • Liabilities
   • Score
   • Sport

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'deficit' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3976

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'deficit' in Nouns Frequency: #1491

How to pronounce deficit?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of deficit in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of deficit in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of deficit in a Sentence

1. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders:

   So is deficit reduction important? Of course, it is.

2. Alejo Czerwonko:

   It is not good news for the fiscal consolidation process because it will delay the 2015 and 2016 budgets, the country is running a 9.5% of GDP fiscal deficit, so you need to get that under control. This is hurting the fiscal consolidation process, which in turn is hurting the macro economic environment.

3. Danielle Atkinson:

   If we teach a generation of young people that, after the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation and all of the events of the 1860s, attempts to integrate free people failed and there were repressive laws enacted that weren't repealed for almost a century, then we're going to have different conversations, we're going to have historical context for why the country is the way it is, instead of thinking that the fact that Black people are at the bottom of every metric is indicative of our deficit or our inferiority.

4. Bob Mann:

   So it appears they're really pouring all their efforts into turning out the base, but I don't see how they get enough African-Americans to offset the deficit she faced in the last election.

5. John Meyer:

   It's a meaningful number in terms of swinging the market from oversupply to deficit, it could squeeze the short sellers.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=deficit
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Deficit
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deficit
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deficit