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def·i·cit

(dĕf′ĭ-sĭt)

a. Inadequacy or insufficiency: a deficit in grain production.

b. A deficiency or impairment in mental or physical functioning.

a. The amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required or expected amount; a shortage: large budget deficits.

b. A business loss.

3. An amount that quantifies an unfavorable condition or position: rallied from a three-game deficit to win the playoffs.

[French déficit, from Latin dēficit, it is lacking, third person sing. present tense of dēficere, to fail, be lacking; see defect.]

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deficit

(ˈdɛfɪsɪt; dɪˈfɪsɪt)

1. (Accounting & Book-keeping) the amount by which an actual sum is lower than that expected or required

2. (Accounting & Book-keeping)

a. an excess of liabilities over assets

b. an excess of expenditures over revenues during a certain period

c. an excess of payments over receipts on the balance of payments

[C18: from Latin, literally: there is lacking, from dēficere to be lacking]

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def•i•cit

(ˈdɛf ə sɪt; Brit. also dɪˈfɪs ɪt)

n.

1. the amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required amount.

2. a loss, as in the operation of a business.

3. the amount by which liabilities exceed assets.

4. a deficiency.

5. a disadvantage or handicap.

[1775–85; < Latin dēficit (it) lacks, 3rd pers. singular present indic. of dēficere]

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Noun	1.	deficit - 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" shortage, shortfall inadequacy, deficiency, insufficiency - lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits" oxygen deficit - temporary oxygen shortage in cells resulting from strenuous exercise
	2.	deficit - a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning; "the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory"; "they have serious linguistic deficits" deficiency, lack, want - the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost"
	3.	deficit - (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing athletics, sport - an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition score - a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest; "the score was 7 to 0" lead - (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning
	4.	deficit - an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period); "last year there was a serious budgetary deficit" liabilities - anything that is owed to someone else budget deficit - an excess of expenditures over revenues trade deficit - an excess of imports over exports

deficit

noun shortfall, shortage, deficiency, loss, default, arrears They're ready to cut the budget deficit for the next fiscal year.

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deficit

noun

The condition or fact of being deficient:

defect, deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, paucity, poverty, scantiness, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, underage.

Translations

عَجْزعَجْز مالي

deficitschodek

underskudminus

vaje

gubitak

deficit

vöntun; halli

deficit deficitario disavanzo ammanco

欠損

부족

deficitas

deficīts, iztrūkums

schodok

underskott

ปริมาณที่ขาด

açık noksan

sự thâm hụt

亏空额赤字逆差

deficit

[ˈdefɪsɪt]

A. N (esp Fin) → déficit m
the balance of payments is in deficit → la balanza de pagos es deficitaria

B. CPD deficit financing N → financiación f mediante déficit
deficit spending N → gasto m deficitario

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deficit

[ˈdɛfəsɪt] n → déficit m
to be in deficit [account] → être en déficit

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deficit

n → Defizit nt

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deficit

[ˈdɛfɪsɪt] n (Fin) → deficit m inv, disavanzo
to be in deficit → essere in deficit

deficit

(ˈdefisit) noun

the amount by which an amount (of money etc) is less than the amount required. a deficit of several hundred dollars.

deficit

→ عَجْز deficit underskud Defizit έλλειμα déficit vaje déficit gubitak deficit 欠損 부족 tekort underskudd deficyt défice, déficit дефицит underskott ปริมาณที่ขาด açık sự thâm hụt 逆差

def·i·cit

n. déficit, deuda; falta; deficiencia.

deficit

n déficit m, deficiencia, falta

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"Is that there is a deficit, sire; but if your majesty will permit me "

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Not one could bear his share of the fine; not one but evinced a wonderful twinkle of hope that each of the others (in succession) was the very man who could step in to make good the deficit. One took a high hand; he could not pay his share; if it went to a trial, he should bolt; he had always felt the English Bar to be his true sphere.

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He simply gave Alexey Alexandrovitch the money he needed together with a brief statement of the position of his affairs, which was not altogether satisfactory, as it had happened that during that year, owing to increased expenses, more had been paid out than usual, and there was a deficit. But the doctor, a celebrated Petersburg doctor, who was an intimate acquaintance of Alexey Alexandrovitch, took up a great deal of time.

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But that present of bank-notes, once made, was measurable, and being applied to the amount of the debt, showed a deficit which had still to be filled up either by Fred's "judgment" or by luck in some other shape.

In that case Fred, when he had parted with his new horse for at least eighty pounds, would be fifty-five pounds in pocket by the transaction, and would have a hundred and thirty-five pounds towards meeting the bill; so that the deficit temporarily thrown on Mr.

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The true Harpagons were always marked and exceptional characters; not so the worthy tax-payers, who, having once pinched from real necessity, retained even in the midst of their comfortable retirement, with their wallfruit and wine-bins, the habit of regarding life as an ingenious process of nibbling out one's livelihood without leaving any perceptible deficit, and who would have been as immediately prompted to give up a newly taxed luxury when they had had their clear five hundred a year, as when they had only five hundred pounds of capital.

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The money which I had reckoned upon never came to hand, and a premature examination of accounts exposed my deficit. The case might have been dealt leniently with, but the laws were more harshly administered thirty years ago than now, and on my twenty-third birthday I found myself chained as a felon with thirty-seven other convicts in 'tween-decks of the bark Gloria Scott, bound for Australia.

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The Colonel, who had been compelled for some years to keep a sufficient sum on current account at his bankers to make up their deficits, found that the provision was unnecessary: the young people were prospering.

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ISLAMABAD -- Trade deficit has narrowed down remarkably during July the first month of ongoing financial year 2019-2020.

Trade deficit narrows down remarkably during July of fiscal year 2019-20

BOP swings to $404-M deficit in June !-- -- Lawrence Agcaoili (The Philippine Star) - July 20, 2019 - 12:00am MANILA, Philippines The country's balance of payments (BOP) registered a deficit in June, ending seven straight months of surpluses, due to substantial outflows stemming from the payment of foreign obligations by the national government, according to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas.

BOP swings to $404-M deficit in June

KARACHI -- Pakistan's current account deficit narrowed 32% to $13.59 billion in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2019 mainly due to a notable growth in inflow of worker remittances and reduction in import of goods and services.

Current account deficit contracts 32% to $13.59b

In developing countries, researchers see that the current account deficit is regarded as one of the significant reasons for unsteady growth.