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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.
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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, 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
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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
ranking | word | |
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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 |
How to use deficit in a sentence?
We still face enormous problems that this budget does not even pretend to address, let's be clear : the math in this budget does not work. Next fiscal year - that already has a $ 2 billion deficit - will now begin with an extra $ 300 million deficit.
There's a demand, there's a debate - all my colleagues are saying what's the need of keeping the fiscal deficit in check when there is a distress in a particular sector, even think-tanks associated with us are talking in this sense. Very few people domestically are talking about fiscal prudence. Only foreign think-tanks are talking fiscal prudence, fiscal prudence. I strongly believe an expansionary policy can benefit the party.
Senate Democrats sided with American families over special interests, voting to lower the cost of prescription drugs, health insurance, and everyday energy costs and reduce the deficit, while making the wealthiest corporations finally pay their fair share.
At today's level of the real effective exchange rate, the current account deficit is expected to rise above 4 percent of GDP by 2020, pointing to the U.S. dollar being overvalued by 10-20 percent.
It's fully operational, it's helped a lot in meeting the deficit.
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