Deficit

Definitions: Deficit

Deficit

Noun

1. The property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required.

2. An excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "deficit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Business

Economics

Finance

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Deficit

Compensation

Phrase: " light is mingled with the gloom "; every dark cloud has a silver lining; primo avulso non deficit alter; saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas.

Debt

Arrears, deferred payment, deficit, default, insolvency; (nonpayment); bad debt.

End

Phrase: "as high as Heaven and as deep as hell"; deficit omne quod nascitur; en toute chose il faut considerer la fin; finem respice; ultimus Romanorum.

Incompleteness

Defect, deficit, defalcation, omission; caret; shortage; interval; break; (discontinuity); noncompletion; missing link.

Plurality

Phrase: non deficit alter.

Crosswords: Deficit

Albanian (deficiency, deficit), Czech (deficit), Danish (deficit), Dutch (deficit, loss), Hungarian (deficiency, deficit, shortfall, Wantage), Italian (deficiency, deficit, shortage, shortfall), Latin (become extinct, deficit, die, fade out, it is wanting, pass away, sink, subside, suffer eclipse, wane), Portuguese (deficit), Romanian (deficiency, deficit, shortage, shortcoming), Serbo-Croatian (deficit, wantage), Swedish (deficit).

And certainly not when you've got Liberia's deficit in your skyrocket. (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

Now, I think the deficit is like a crazy old aunt that lives in the cellar: everybody knows she's down there, but nobody wants to talk about her. Well, I say bring her on up and give the bitch a good hosing. (Saturday Night Live; writing credit: Doug Abeles; Leo Allen)

I'm not proud of biting the head off a bat. I'm not proud of having attention deficit disorder. (The Osbournes; writing credit: Liliana Abud; Jaime Garc�a Estrada)

The Deficit (1915)

Attention Deficit (2003)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The Official Parent's Sourcebook on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Journeys Through ADDulthood: Discover a New Sense of Identity and Meaning While Living with Attention Deficit Disorder (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• National Attention Deficit Disorder Association Membership (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• All About Attention Deficit Disorder (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Attention Deficit (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Pulmonary disease common symptoms are fever, cough, and chest pain; for central nervous system disease symptoms are usually headache, lethargy, confusion, seizures, and sudden onset of neurologic deficit.Credit: CDC.

Raskob writing letter to James A. Farley about deficit.Credit: Library of Congress.

I know this is going to horrify my old friend F.D.R. but it's the way out of the deficit!.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Expenditure by the Commission, whether in the discharge of its own functions or in the administration of the territory, will be borne by the local revenues East Prussia will be required to bear such proportion of any deficit as may be fixed by the Principal Allied and Associated Powers. (reference)

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Health

A deficit in understanding speech is called aphasia. (references)

Greater deficit occurs from bilateral than from unilateral placement. (references)

Other individuals with cerebral aneurysm recover with little or no neurological deficit. (references)

Business

Mexico has a huge housing deficit. (references)

For many years, France has recorded a trade deficit in the packaging machinery sector. (references)

On the other hand, final imports for general consumption had a deficit of US$1,115 million. (references)

Children

Venezuela

According to a 1999 study by the National Nutrition Institute, 23 percent of children under the age of 15 have a nutritional deficit. (references)

Costa Rica

In 1999 the PANI and the Ministry of Education published specific classroom guidelines for assisting children with hearing loss, motor difficulties, attention deficit disorder, and mental retardation. (references)

Economic History

Iceland

Annual budget deficit (1998): None. (references)

Political Economy

Kuwait

The estimated 2000-2001 budget deficit was $680 million. (references)

EL SALVADOR

The trade deficit at the end of August was $1.45 billion. (references)

Kuwait

For the current FY, the budget deficit is estimated at $7.5 billion. (references)

Trade

Eritrea

The 2.5 percent interest rate paid to the Bank by the government on these bills understates the deficit. (references)

Cape Verde

Export Controls: given the significant structural deficit of the trade balance, there are no controls on exports. (references)

Luxembourg

Luxembourg has run a persistent trade deficit over the past ten years, but enjoys an overall balance of payments surplus. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "deficit": attention deficit disorder ♦ Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity ♦ Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) ♦ attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ♦ budget deficit ♦ cash deficit ♦ deficit budget ♦ deficit countries ♦ deficit omne quod nascitur ♦ deficit spending ♦ democratic deficit ♦ Energy deficit ♦ export deficit ♦ federal deficit ♦ foreign trade deficit ♦ free energy deficit ♦ import deficit ♦ in deficit ♦ non deficit alter ♦ oxygen deficit ♦ primo avulso non deficit alter ♦ showing a deficit ♦ swelling deficit ♦ trade balance deficit ♦ trade deficit. Additional references.

Beginning with "deficit": deficit-cutters, deficit-cutting, deficit-financing, deficit-reducing, deficit-reduction, deficit-ridden.

Ending with "deficit": access-deficit, budget-deficit, food-deficit, grain-deficit, single-deficit.

Afrikaan

begrotingstekort (budgetary, budgetary deficit). (various references)

Albanian

deficit (deficiency), mungesë (absence, absentness, dearth, deficiency, destitution, lack, Miss, non-attendance, poverty, scarcity, shortcoming, short-fall, want, Wantage), e metë (blemish, defect, demerit, disfigurement, failing, fault, feebleness, flaw, handicap, limitations, shortcoming, weakness), cen (blemish, blot, defect, demerit, disablement, disfigurement, flaw, imperfection, malformation, shortcoming, vice). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عجز بشكل عام. (various references)

Bulgarian 

недостиг (famine, insufficiency, lack, privation, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, stringency, ullage, want), дефицит (deficiency, short-fall). (various references)

Chinese 

赤字 . (various references)

Czech

deficit, schodek (deficiency), nedostatek (absence, defect, deficiency, demerit, drawback, failing, failure, fault, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, non-availability, penury, poverty, privation, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, want). (various references)

Danish

deficit. (various references)

Dutch

deficit (loss), tekort (absence, deficiency, lack, shortage, shortcoming), nadelig saldo (adverse balance, debit balance, deficiency), kastekort. (various references)

Esperanto

deficito. (various references)

Faeroese

undirskot, hall. (various references)

Farsi 

کمبود (Dearth, Deficiency, Leakage, Shortage, Shortcoming), کسرعمل , کسردرامد, کسر (Deduction, Deficiency, Diminution, Leakage, Under). (various references)

Finnish

vajaus (head space, shortage, ullage). (various references)

French

impasse (cul de sac, dead end, dead-end street, deadlock), déficit. (various references)

German

defizit (deficiency), fehlbetrag (deficiency, deficits, shortfall), manko (absence, deficiency, lack, shortage, shortcoming). (various references)

Greek 

έλλειμμα (deficiency). (various references)

Hebrew 

�'רוע (bad, execrable, inferior, putrid, reduction, seamy, shortage, shortfall), �'רעון (shortage). (various references)

Hungarian

deficit (deficiency, shortfall, Wantage), hiány (absence, blank, dearth, defect, deficiency, deprivation, failure, hiatus, lack, missing, missing link, poverty, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, upchuck, want, wastage), veszteség (attrition, bereavement, blue, casualties, casualty, damage, disadvantage, dissipation, losings, loss, losses, wastage). (various references)

Indonesian

defisit, tekor. (various references)

Italian

deficit (deficiency, loss, shortage, shortfall), disavanzo (deficiency, gap). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

赤字 (go in the red), � 損 (damage, loss, shortage), 不足前 (shortage). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たらずまえ (shortage), あかじ (go in the red, red background, red cloth), けっそ�" (damage, loss, shortage). (various references)

Korean 

� �자 (minuses, shortfall). (various references)

Manx

baarney (gap, inroad, interlude, interstice, slash). (various references)

Norwegian

underskudd. (various references)

Pig Latin

eficitday

Portuguese

deficit, deficiência (badness, brack, defect, deficiency, degrade, disability, disturbance, failing, fault, flaw, handicap, impairment, liable, malformation, perturbation, shortcoming, vice, want), déficit (short, shortfall, Wantage), défice (deficiency), défice. (various references)

Romanian

deficit (deficiency, shortage, shortcoming), minus (minus), manco. (various references)

Russian 

дефицит (scarcities, scarcity, shortfall, shortfall on, shortfalls). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

deficit (wantage), manjak (defiance, deficiency, shortage, shortfall, short-fall, shortness, wantage). (various references)

Spanish

déficit (deficiency, short, shortage, shortfall). (various references)

Swedish

underskott (deficiency, loss, shortfall). (various references)

Turkish

dezavantaj (disadvantage), hesap açığı (deficiency), eksiklik (dearth, defalcation, defect, defectiveness, deficiency, desideratum, failing, failure, flimsiness, imperfection, inadequacy, incompetence, insufficiency, lack, Lacuna, lameness, negation, poverty, shortage, shortcoming, shortness, sketchiness, void), açik (above-board, absence, bright, clear, clearly, deficiency, distinct, free, lack, light, obvious, of course, open, plain, serene, shortage, shortcoming, sincere, unbiased, unchecked, untroubled, vacant), açık (aboveground, apparent, articulate, avowed, bare, blank, broad, candid, categorical, clean-cut, clear, clear-cut, cloudless, confessed, decided, declared, decollete, deficiency, deficient, deficient amount, definite, definitive, direct, distinct, downright, evident, expansive, explicit, exposed, express, expressly, fair, forthright, free, gaping, hospitable, in blank, light, loose, lucent, lucid, luminous, obvious, open, open air, open ended, outdoor, outright, overt, pale, patent, perspicuous, plain, point blank, precise, raw, revealing, round, serene, shadowless, shirt-sleeve, shortage, shortfall, spread, Square, straightforward, swinging, translucent, unambiguous, unashamed, unclouded, uncomplicated, unconcealed, uncovered, uncrossed, undisguised, unequivocal, unlocked, unmistakable, unobstructed, unprotected, unsealed, upfront, vacant, visible, well-marked, wide open, wishywashy). (various references)

Ukranian 

нестача (defect, shortage), недолік (blemish, defect, deficiency, dereliction, disadvantage, drawback, failing, imperfection, infirmity, lapse, minus, negative, objection, out, preterition, shortcoming, take off, vice, wrinkle), дефіцит (bad, deficiency, shortage, shortfall). (various references)

deficit. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "deficit": deficits. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Deficit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: decifit, Defazio, defcit, defeciet, defecit, defficit, deficant, deficent, deficet, deficite, deficitt, deficity, defict, defictit, definit, defisit, defosit, depici, dificit, edicit. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: citied, deific.

-2 letters: cited, edict, fetid, teiid.

-3 letters: cedi, cite, defi, deft, dice, diet, dite, edit, etic, fice, iced, tide, tied.

-4 letters: die, dit, eft, fed, fet, fid, fie, fit, ice, ted, tic, tie.

-5 letters: de, ed, ef, et, id, if, it, ti.

+1 letter: citified, cityfied, deficits, feticide.

+2 letters: acetified, certified, deficient, disinfect, feticides, fideistic, inflicted, rectified, tackified.

+3 letters: deficients, dentifrice, disinfects, fratricide, fructified, officiated, sanctified.

+4 letters: countrified, decertified, decertifies, deficiently, deification, dentifrices, discomfited, disinfected, edification, electrified, facilitated, fanaticized, fecundities, felicitated, feudalistic, fictionized, fiddlestick, fratricides, infanticide, objectified, recertified, uncertified.

+5 letters: beneficiated, certificated, confidential, decertifying, deifications, difficulties, disaffecting, disaffection, discomfiture, disinfectant, disinfecting, disinfection, edifications, eisteddfodic, fiddlesticks, flaccidities, indefectible, indefectibly, infanticides, noncertified, pontificated, precertified.

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