'Deficit' definitions:
Definition of 'deficit'
(from WordNet)
noun
The property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required; "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit" [syn: deficit, shortage, shortfall]
noun
A deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning; "the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory"; "they have serious linguistic deficits"
noun
(sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing [ant: lead]
noun
An excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period); "last year there was a serious budgetary deficit"
Definition of 'Deficit'
From: GCIDE
- Deficit \Def"i*cit\, n. [Lit., it is wanting, 3d person pres. indic. of L. deficere, cf. F. d['e]ficit. See Defect.] Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack; as, a deficit in taxes, revenue, etc. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'deficit'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absence,
- arrear,
- arrearage,
- arrears,
- back debts,
- back payments,
- balance,
- beggary,
- bouncing check,
- break,
- credit,
- decline,
- defalcation,
- default,
- defect,
- defectiveness,
- deferred payments,
- deficiency,
- deficit financing,
- delinquency,
- deprivation,
- destitution,
- difference,
- discontinuity,
- discrepancy,
- dollar gap,
- drought,
- epact,
- failure,
- falling short,
- famine,
- gap,
- hiatus,
- imperfection,
- impoverishment,
- inadequacy,
- incompleteness,
- inferiority,
- insufficiency,
- interval,
- lack,
- lacuna,
- loss,
- missing link,
- need,
- net,
- omission,
- outage,
- overdraft,
- remainder,
- scantiness,
- short measure,
- shortage,
- shortcoming,
- shortfall,
- slump,
- starvation,
- surplus,
- ullage,
- underage,
- want,
- wantage