deficit

See also: déficit and dèficit

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French déficit, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin dēficit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛfɪsɪt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛfəsɪt/
• Hyphenation: de‧fi‧cit

Noun

deficit (plural deficits)

1. Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack.
2. A situation wherein, or amount whereby, spending exceeds government revenue.
   • 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, "London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):

     Economically, too, London is startlingly different. The capital, unlike the country as a whole, has no budget deficit: London’s public spending matches the taxes paid in the city. The average Londoner contributes 70 percent more to Britain’s national income than people in the rest of the country.

Synonyms

• fiscal deficit, shortfall

Derived terms

• fiscal deficit
• trade deficit

Related terms

Related terms

• defect
• defection
• defective

• defector
• deficiency
• deficient

Translations

deficiency — see deficiency

situation wherein spending exceeds government revenue

• Armenian: դեֆիցիտ (hy) (deficʻit), պակասուրդ (hy) (pakasurd)
• Belarusian: дэфіцы́т m (deficýt)
• Bulgarian: дефици́т (bg) m (deficít)
• Catalan: dèficit (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 赤字 (zh) (chìzì)

• Czech: deficit (cs) m
• Dutch: tekort (nl), gat n in de begroting f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: vaje (fi)
• French: déficit budgétaire, déficit (note: déficit in French also has a broader meaning)
• Georgian: დეფიციტი (depiciṭi)
• German: Defizit (de) n
• Greek: έλλειμμα (el) n (élleimma)
• Hebrew: גרעון (gira'on) m
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• Japanese: 赤字 (ja) (あかじ, akaji), 欠損 (ja) (けっそん, kesson)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 적자 (ko) (jeokja)
• Lao: ຂາດດຸນ (khāt dun)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: underskudd
• Portuguese: déficit (pt)
• Romanian: deficit (ro) n
• Russian: дефици́т (ru) m (deficít)
• Spanish: déficit (es)
• Swedish: underskott (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: дефіци́т m (deficýt)
• Vietnamese: sự thâm hụt

References

• “deficit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Further reading

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Czech

Noun

1. deficit

Related terms

• defekt m

Further reading

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Italian

Noun

deficit m (uncountable)

1. deficit (financial, medical)

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) dēficit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of dēficiō

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Portuguese

Noun

1. Alternative form of déficit

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

dȅficit m (Cyrillic spelling де̏фицит)

1. deficit (financial)

Declension

Declension of deficit

	singular	plural
nominative	deficit	deficiti
genitive	deficita	deficita
dative	deficitu	deficitima
accusative	deficit	deficite
vocative	deficite	deficiti
locative	deficitu	deficitima
instrumental	deficitom	deficitima