Associations to the word «Deficit»

Wiktionary

DEFICIT, noun. Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack.
DEFICIT, noun. A situation wherein, or amount whereby, spending exceeds government revenue.
DEFICIT SPENDING, noun. (economics) The spending by a government in excess of government revenue.

Dictionary definition

DEFICIT, noun. 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".
DEFICIT, noun. A deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning; "the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory"; "they have serious linguistic deficits".
DEFICIT, noun. (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing.
DEFICIT, noun. An excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period); "last year there was a serious budgetary deficit".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats