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Princeton's WordNet

1. budget deficitnoun

   an excess of expenditures over revenues

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1. United States:

   It's the lack of certainty that is hurting, if you are a CEO today, looking ahead to the next year -- what are tax rates going to be like in a year ? What is the United States budget deficit going to be like ? Will there be tariffs ?

2. Zsolt Papp:

   It's turned out better than initial expectations. They managed to reduce the budget deficit without imposing austerity and hiking taxes across the board, growth, current account, by the measures that investors look at, Hungary is doing okay, compared to where it was before, compared to neighbours and the wider emerging markets universe.

3. Jeff Kingston:

   Given Japan's aging society and the growing budget deficit, there's a need for the young to increase tax payments, lowering the age of adulthood could be a way to convince them that they have a stake and voice in society.

4. Capital Economics:

   In good times, the oil price soared and they had to spend money on subsidies, which resulted in a big budget deficit, which is the opposite of what you want to happen, hopefully now they'll be able to manage fiscal policy in a much more sensible way.

5. Deputy Prime Minister Paulo Portas:

   I think the Portuguese will have very good sense in who The Socialists choose on Oct. 4 and The Socialists will avoid any kind of risk of returning to the causes and consequences of what happened in 2011, no society goes through what the Portuguese went through without learning its due lessons and consequences. The Socialists had a serious budget deficit and debt problem in 2011.

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