Synonym: shortage, shortfall. Similar words: define, definition, definitely, explicit, publicity, official, electricity, officious. Meaning: ['defɪsɪt] n. 1. the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required 2. a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning 3. (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing 4. an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period).
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61. Government adhered to the prevailing orthodoxy that balanced budgets were necessary and desirable and that deficit financing was neither.
62. A record balance of payments deficit is not the right background for enforced increases in industrial costs.
63. Consequently, he was budgeting for a deficit of about A$5,600,000.
64. The increased deficit is to be financed by borrowing on the domestic market, largely from the domestic banking system.
65. Coaches are always yelling at referees, remarking on their visual impairments and attention deficit disorders.
66. As for this year, one-time items will reduce the 1996 budget deficit.
67. And they gave him every diagnosis-from sociopathy to thought disorder, attention deficit disorder, conduct disorder.
68. Analysts suggested that the revenue from the ports would provide much-needed resources to reduce the country's massive budget deficit.
69. The trade balance in that year showed a deficit of US$805,000,000.
70. As treasurer of the R.A.D.D., he once balanced the books, which had a serious deficit, with a handsome donation.
71. HYPOKALEMlA A low plasma potassium concentration is not always accompanied by a deficit in total body potassium.
72. They say it would be an inexpensive way to help slash the budget deficit.
73. Does he have a subtle learning disability, an attention deficit, or some type of physical or neurological problem?
74. There is, however, abundant evidence that many patients vulnerable to clinical depression have a constitutional deficit of serotonin.
75. If an attention deficit is suspected as the cause of academic and / or social problems, an evaluation should be conducted.
76. With the United States running a current account deficit of staggering dimensions, the most likely candidate is not hard to spot.
77. But the financing was also put to questionable use -- to buy the district out of an operating deficit.
78. Heavy capital investment led to a record £23.4 billion financial deficit last year.
79. Note that the lower interest rate causes a capital account deficit on the balance of payments as people buy foreign assets.
80. Because the rest of the government borrows from it,[http://sentencedict.com/deficit.html] it masks the size of the federal deficit.
81. Many analysts had called for a more ambitious target in reducing the budget deficit.
82. In Chapter 1 we said that it was the job of a financial system to channel funds from surplus to deficit sectors.
83. A recent investment boom should help firms to compete internationally, though in the short term it has worsened the trade deficit.
84. But a spiraling deficit and weakened franc forced him to adopt austerity policies in 1983.
85. Second, it attracts hot money into the country to finance the current account deficit because investors perceive no currency risk.
86. The Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh, I believe, had a recent £200,000 deficit, but has been awarded a larger grant.
87. Trade creation induces a rise in imports and hence induces a deficit in the balance of trade.
88. The expense of servicing the debt burden increased the budget deficit, which in turn stimulated inflation.
89. The government borrowed from the banks about four-fifths of these deposits, to finance its deficit.
90. Nor can it be generated by easier fiscal policy because the budget deficit is already so high.
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