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structural deficits

structural deficits is the plural of structural deficit.

Meaning of structural deficit

Noun

structural deficit (plural structural deficits)

  1. That portion of the public sector deficit which exists even when the economy is at potential. Government spending beyond government revenues at times of normal, predictable economic activity, as opposed to a cyclical deficit.
    • Canadian Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page maintained that the government has a structural budget deficit which will only decline gradually to C$13.7 billion in 2014/15 in spite of C$17.6 billion in cost savings announced by the government last week.2010 March 11, Nirmala Menon, “Canada Budget Officer Still Sees Structural Deficit”, in Wall Street Journal Newswire

Questions about structural deficits

What is structural deficits the plural of?
Structural deficits is the plural of structural deficit.

Words near structural deficits in the dictionary

  1. structural anthropologist
  2. structural anthropologists
  3. structural anthropology
  4. structural biology
  5. structural deficit
  6. structural deficits
  7. structural disorder
  8. structural disorders
  9. structural engineer
  10. structural engineering
  11. structural engineerings

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