Definitions for deficit

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deficit def·i·cit

Spelling: [def-uh-sit; British also dih-fis-it]

IPA: /ˈdɛf ə sɪt; British also dɪˈfɪs ɪt/

Deficit is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 107 anagrams from letters in deficit (cdefiit).

Definitions for deficit

noun

1. the amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required amount.
2. the amount by which expenditures or liabilities exceed income or assets.
3. a lack or shortage; deficiency.
4. a disadvantage, impairment, or handicap:
5. a loss, as in the operation of a business.

Origin of deficit

1775-85; Latin dēficit (it) lacks, 3rd person singular present indicative of dēficere; see deficient

Examples for deficit

Nor is the deficit, which has lost its saliency since it was cut in half to $500 billion.

The deficit is down to 2.8 percent of GDP, from a high of 10.1 percent in the wake of the meltdown.

There will be a deficit in the accounts, just as the result of that.

Then he faced a $3.7 billion deficit, the largest in state history, and the largest per capita in the nation.

Schools closed, the deficit ballooned, highways crumbled, jobs disappeared—I imagine ruby slippers were hocked.

That is to say, the factors that help drive the budget into deficit in the first place make them much worse.

He might perhaps have dispersed the Assembly; he could not disperse debt and deficit.

Their credit for 1901 was $10392, thus leaving a deficit for the beginning of the next year.

But the addition or subtraction disclosed a deficit and he exclaimed at it.

But that due must be paid, not out of deficit, but out of surplus.