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. Richard Feynman:

   There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.

2. Alan Gayle:

   A negative number is scary for the market, it was something of a one-two punch between the trade-deficit report and higher interest rates that began overseas.

3. Senator Bernie Sanders:

   Instead of sheltering profits in the Cayman Islands and other offshore tax havens, the largest corporations in this country must pay their fair share of taxes so that our country has the revenue we need to rebuild America and reduce the deficit.

4. President Biden:

   We're going to lower the deficit by a trillion dollars, these guys talk about how they always are worried about us spending. We're lowering the deficit. No one's ever done that.

5. 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.

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