· 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"
Synonym(s): shortage, shortfall
Hypernym(s): insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
· a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning; "the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory"; "they have serious linguistic deficits"
Hypernym(s): lack, deficiency, want
· (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing
Hypernym(s): score
Antonym(s): lead
· an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period); "last year there was a serious budgetary deficit"
Hypernym(s): liabilities