deficit
Syllables: de·fi·cit/ˈdɛfɪsɪt/US/ˈdɛfəsɪt/
deficit noun: deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack.
Noun
deficit (plural deficits)
- Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack.
- The crop output this year has been comparatively small, owing to the deficit in rainfall.
- A situation wherein, or amount whereby, spending exceeds (e.g. government) revenue.
- Dr. Beeching's obvious intent is that if Scottish—and similarly unprofitable English and Welsh—railways are to be maintained, it must be done by an unconcealed subsidy; he is determined that the railways shall no longer be preoccupied with—and derided for—immense deficits which include the burden...1962 October, “Talking of Trains: Passed to you, Mr. Macmillan”, in Modern Railways, page 220
- But Wall Street, which has a case of deficit-attention disorder, is no longer focused on a balanced budget. "The bond market only worries about one thing at [a time.]1996 August 4, “It's Time for a Reality Check on the Deficit”, in Contra Costa Times, Contra Costa, CA
deficit meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
deficit in Hindi
- situation wherein spending exceeds government revenue
- घाटा ghāṭā
deficit in Tamil
- துண்டுவிழல், தெளிவாகக் கூறு, பற்றாக்குறை, வரையறு
deficit in Urdu
- situation wherein spending exceeds government revenue
- گھاٹا ghāṭā, خَسارَہ xasāra, خِسارَہ xisāra
More languagesFewer languages
- deficit in Bengali
- ঘাটতি, অকুলান, অভাব, অকুলন
- deficit in Malayalam
- വരുമാനവിടവ്, കമ്മി, കമി, കുറവ്
- deficit in Kannada
- ಕೊರತೆ, ಖೋತಾ, ಆದಾಯಕ್ಕಿಂತ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಖರ್ಚು
- deficit in Odia
- ନିଅଣ୍ଟ
- deficit in Tagalog
- depisit
- deficit in Arabic
- عَجْز ʕajz
- deficit in Malay
- defisit
- deficit in Indonesian
- defisit
- deficit in Thai
- การขาดดุล gaan-kàat-dun
- deficit in Vietnamese
- sự thâm hụt
Examples of deficit in a sentence
- They rallied from a three-goal deficit only to lose in the final two minutes of play.
- When an area's ecological footprint exceeds its biocapacity, an ecological deficit occurs.
- A principle of fiscal Hawkery was to never allow a planned deficit.
Synonyms of deficit
Antonyms
Forms of deficit
| plural | deficits |
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Origin of deficit
From French déficit, from Latin dēficit. Related to defect.
Words formed from deficit
- antideficit
- attention deficit disorder
- attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
- budget deficit
- caloric deficit
- calorie deficit
- deficit budget
- deficit good
- deficit hawk
- deficit spending
- democratic deficit
- fiscal deficit
- information deficit model
- nature deficit disorder
- nature-deficit disorder
- negative deficit
- neurodeficit
- neuroleptic-induced deficit syndrome
- nondeficit
- oxygen deficit
- sleep deficit
- soil moisture deficit
- structural deficit
- trade deficit
Phrases with deficit
Questions about deficit
- What does deficit mean?
- Deficit means deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack.
- What is deficit in Hindi?
- Deficit in Hindi is घाटा (ghāṭā). See Deficit meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is deficit?
- Deficit is a noun.
- How do you pronounce deficit?
- Deficit is pronounced /ˈdɛfɪsɪt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of deficit?
- The plural of deficit is deficits.
Words near deficit in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: deficit (page history and authors); deficit (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); deficit (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); deficit (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); deficit (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); deficit (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); deficit (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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