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Synonyms for Deficit
ˈdɛf ə sɪt; Brit. also dɪˈfɪs ɪtdeficit
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deficitnoun
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fiscal deficitdeficitnoun
Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack.
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fiscal deficitdeficitnoun
A situation wherein, or amount whereby, spending exceeds government revenue.
Synonyms:
fiscal deficit
Princeton's WordNet
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"
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shortfall, shortage, deficit, dearth, famineAntonyms:
leaddeficitnoun
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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leaddeficitnoun
(sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing
Antonyms:
leaddeficitnoun
an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period)
"last year there was a serious budgetary deficit"
Antonyms:
lead
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
deficitnoun
Synonyms:
[L.] want, DEFICIENCY
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "deficit":
shortfall, deficits, gap, shortage, deficiency, disability, lack, inability, shortcoming, incapacity
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#2498 | lack | |
#3459 | disability | |
#4114 | gap | |
#8380 | deficit | |
#10765 | deficiency | |
#11775 | shortage | |
#11794 | inability | |
#17942 | deficits | |
#21541 | famine | |
#23993 | shortfall | |
#31904 | incapacity | |
#47177 | dearth | |
#55818 | shortcoming |
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The deficit of women in eastern Germany is unprecedented in Europe. Even in regions around the Arctic circle in the north of Sweden and Finland - areas which are particularly suffering from a flight of young women from the countryside - numbers do not even touch those of eastern Germany.
We are also very focused on free and fair trade for U.S. companies to have access there and to having a more level playing field which will bring down the trade deficit, i don't think it would be productive to speculate on the outcome because we have a lot of work left to do. ... If we can't get to the deadline, that's not because we haven't worked around the clock.
Well, you know Scott was going to be sort of the leader in Iowa and the common wisdom was that Scott would win Iowa because he's from the adjoining state, you know his numbers are not good in the adjoining state. He's got a $2.2 billion deficit, they predicted that he'd have a big surplus of about a billion.
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.
Investor optimism for oil has markedly improved. We believe the gains in price are sustainable and not just driven by speculative gains. We are likely to be in a global oil supply deficit by Q3 2016.
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