deficit | | |
n. (attribute) | 1. deficit, shortage, shortfall | 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" |
| ~ inadequacy, deficiency, insufficiency | lack of an adequate quantity or number.; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits" |
| ~ oxygen deficit | temporary oxygen shortage in cells resulting from strenuous exercise. |
n. (state) | 2. deficit | a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning.; "the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory"; "they have serious linguistic deficits" |
| ~ deficiency, lack, want | the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost" |
n. (quantity) | 3. deficit | (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing. |
| ~ athletics, sport | an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition. |
| ~ score | a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest.; "the score was 7 to 0" |
n. (possession) | 4. deficit | an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period).; "last year there was a serious budgetary deficit" |
| ~ liabilities | anything that is owed to someone else. |
| ~ budget deficit | an excess of expenditures over revenues. |
| ~ trade deficit | an excess of imports over exports. |
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