Definition of deficit Deficit
/dɛˈfʌsʌt/ - [defusut] - def•i•cit
We found 10 definitions of deficit from 5 different sources.
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What does deficit mean?
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NounPlural: deficits |
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| deficit - (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing | ||
| score the act of scoring in a game or sport; "the winning score came with less than a minute left to play" | ||
| athletics, sport participation in sports events as an extracurricular activity | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate | ||
| deficit - a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning; "the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory"; "they have serious linguistic deficits" | ||
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- deficit (Noun)
Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack. - deficit (Noun)
A situation wherein, or amount whereby, spending exceeds government revenue.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- deficit (n.)
Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack; as, a deficit in taxes, revenue, etc.
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deficit
An excess of liabilities over assets. -
deficit
A shortage or absence of what is needed.
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🔤- deficit, noun, singular of deficits.
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