Definition of Deficit

1. Noun. 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"

Exact synonyms: Shortage, Shortfall
Generic synonyms: Deficiency, Inadequacy, Insufficiency
Specialized synonyms: Oxygen Deficit

2. Noun. A deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning. "They have serious linguistic deficits"
Generic synonyms: Deficiency, Lack, Want

3. Noun. (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing.
Category relationships: Athletics, Sport
Generic synonyms: Score
Antonyms: Lead

4. Noun. An excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period). "Last year there was a serious budgetary deficit"
Generic synonyms: Liabilities
Specialized synonyms: Budget Deficit, Trade Deficit

Definition of Deficit

1. n. Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack; as, a deficit in taxes, revenue, etc.

Definition of Deficit

1. Noun. Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack. ¹

2. Noun. A situation wherein, or amount whereby, spending exceeds government revenue. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Deficit

1. a shortage [n -S] - See also: shortage

Medical Definition of Deficit

1. A lack or deficiency. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deficit

defibrinizing
deficience
deficiences
deficiencies
deficiency
deficiency anaemia
deficiency disease
deficiency diseases
deficiency mutant
deficiency symptom
deficient
deficient number
deficient numbers
deficiently
deficients
deficit (current term)
deficit spending
deficits
defied
defier
defiers
defies
defiguration
defigure
defigured
defigures
defiguring
defilade
defiladed
defilades

Literary usage of Deficit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. OECD Economic Surveys: Hungary by OECD Staff (2005)
"Following this decision, deficit levels from 2000 onwards have been lowered by at least 0.6% of GDP per year, with the impacts on deficit levels for both ..."

2. Railroad Traffic and Rates by Emory Richard Johnson, Grover Gerhardt Huebner (1911)
"l The postal revenues, expenditures, and deficit since 1880 are shown on the ... The growing deficit has caused many to favor a reduction in the payments ..."

3. Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People: A Report of the Surgeon General by M. Joycelyn Elders (1997)
"Comprehensive reviews published at that time concluded that smoking-prevention programs based on the information deficit approach were not effective ..."

4. The Economic and Budget Outlook: Fiscal Years, 1999-2008 edited by Sherry Snyder (1998)
"Ratio of real US trade deficit to real GDP, both in chained 1992 dollars. b. ... The budget deficit tumbled to $22 billion in 1997 from $107 billion in 1996 ..."

5. The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron by Henry Marion Howe (1916)
"whole there is a slight transverse deficit, there is a slight transverse excess in no less than 27 lines, against a. transverse deficit in only 21. ..."

6. Handbook of Climatology by Julius von Hann (1903)
"It is perfectly true that the rapidity of evaporation is much more nearly proportional to the saturation- deficit than to the relative humidity, ..."

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