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antideficiency

antideficiency adjective: preventing the incurring of obligations or expenditure in excess of available funds.

Adjective

antideficiency (not comparable)

  1. Preventing the incurring of obligations or expenditure in excess of available funds.
    • It looks to me like there is a violation here of the antideficiency statute.1957, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, Second Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Bill, 1957: Hearings, page 97
    • This information supplements (and should be read with) general guidance issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for administering an agency shutdown of operations due to a lapse in appropriations, consistent with the Antideficiency Act (ADA)...2025, “Special Instructions for Agencies Affected by a Possible Lapse in Appropriations Starting on October 1, 2025”, in Office of Personnel Management, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2025...

Origin of antideficiency

From anti- + deficiency.

Questions about antideficiency

What does antideficiency mean?
Antideficiency means preventing the incurring of obligations or expenditure in excess of available funds.
What part of speech is antideficiency?
Antideficiency is an adjective.

Words near antideficiency in the dictionary

  1. antidefamation
  2. antidefence
  3. antidefendant
  4. antidefense
  5. antideferral
  6. antideficiency
  7. antideficit
  8. antideflation
  9. antideflationary
  10. antideforestation
  11. antideformity

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