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1. deficit - 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"

Synonym(s): shortage, shortfall

Hypernym(s): insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency




2. deficit - noun

· 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




3. deficit - noun

· (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing

Hypernym(s): score

Antonym(s): lead




4. deficit - noun

· an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period); "last year there was a serious budgetary deficit"

Hypernym(s): liabilities





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