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deficit - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'deficit' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Deficit [ n.]
- Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack; as, a deficit in taxes, revenue, etc.

Meaning of 'deficit' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . deficit [ n]
Meaning (1):
- an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period)
Example in sentence:
  • last year there was a serious budgetary deficit
Meaning (2):
- the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required
Example in sentence:
  • new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit
Meaning (3):
- a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning
Example in sentence:
  • the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory;
  • they have serious linguistic deficits