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

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1. deficitnoun

   Synonyms:
   fiscal deficit

2. deficitnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   fiscal deficit

3. deficitnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   fiscal deficit

Matched Categories

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

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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"

   Antonyms:
   lead

   Synonyms:
   shortfall, shortage, dearth, famine

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"

   Antonyms:
   lead

   Synonyms:
   shortfall, shortage

3. deficitnoun

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

   Antonyms:
   lead

   Synonyms:
   shortfall, shortage

4. deficitnoun

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

   "last year there was a serious budgetary deficit"

   Antonyms:
   lead

   Synonyms:
   shortfall, shortage

How to use deficit in a sentence?

1. Paul Ryan:

   We're going to have to get back next year at entitlement reform, which is how you tackle the debt and the deficit.

2. Thomas Byrne:

   [One report]is that the government plans to issue bonds to finance funding shortfalls, including to infrastructure such as the Pyongyang General Hospital, and South Koreas Yonhap reported Tuesday that North Koreas Cabinet newspaper, Minju Chosun, is scrounging around for more revenue, from citizens and for businesses to fulfill their tax obligations because businesses cannot fulfill their tax obligations, the government will need to resort to deficit financing for the first time in 17 years.

3. Jerry Moran:

   Can we find taxes to cut that grow the economy? We don’t want to increase the debt and deficit as a result of tax cuts, my goal is to find out which taxes you cut can actually help create more jobs, better jobs, higher-paying jobs … and which ones don’t do that. Not all of them do that.

4. Millan Mulraine:

   Notwithstanding the improvement in the deficit, which signals a diminished drag on domestic GDP, the broad-based falloff in both exports and imports activity is a sobering sign of some weakening in domestic and global demand.

5. Manik Narain:

   The current account deficit is expanding at a time when growth is slowing so there are signs fundamental forces were working against the lira even before the coup, i don't feel very excited about the lira at this stage.

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