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–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: The team's major deficit is its poor pitching.

5.	a loss, as in the operation of a business.

[Origin: 1775–85; < L déficit (it) lacks, 3rd pers. sing. pres. indic. of déficere; see deficient

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n.

1. Inadequacy or insufficiency: a deficit in grain production.
2. A deficiency or impairment in mental or physical functioning.
3. An unfavorable condition or position; a disadvantage: rallied from a three-game deficit to win the playoffs.
4. The amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required or expected amount; a shortage: large budget deficits.
5. A business loss.
1. The amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required or expected amount; a shortage: large budget deficits.
2. A business loss.

[French déficit, from Latin dēficit, it is lacking, third person sing. present tense of dēficere, to fail, be lacking; see defect.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
deficit

1782, from Fr. deficit (1690), from L. deficit "it is wanting," an introductory word in clauses of inventory, third pers. sing. pres. indicative of deficere "to be deficient" (see deficient).

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deficit
noun
1.	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"
2.	a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning; "the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory"; "they have serious linguistic deficits"
3.	(sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing [ant: lead]
4.	an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period); "last year there was a serious budgetary deficit"

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deficit [ˈdefisit] noun

the amount by which an amount (of money etc) is less than the amount required
Example: a deficit of several hundred dollars

Arabic:	عَجْز مالي
Chinese (Simplified):	亏空额，赤字
Chinese (Traditional):	虧空額，赤字
Czech:	schodek
Danish:	underskud; minus
Dutch:	deficit
Estonian:	puudujääk
Finnish:	alijäämä
French:	déficit
German:	das Defizit
Greek:	έλλειμμα
Hungarian:	deficit
Icelandic:	vöntun; (tekju)halli
Indonesian:	defisit
Italian:	deficit

Japanese:	赤字
Korean:	부족액, 적자
Latvian:	deficīts, iztrūkums
Lithuanian:	stoka, deficitas
Norwegian:	underskudd, manko
Polish:	niedobór
Portuguese (Brazil):	déficit
Portuguese (Portugal):	défice
Romanian:	deficit
Russian:	дефицит
Slovak:	deficit
Slovenian:	primanjkljaj
Spanish:	déficit
Swedish:	underskott, brist, deficit
Turkish:	açık, noksan

American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
deficit

A shortage, especially the amount by which a sum of money falls short of what is required; a debt.

[Chapter:] Business and Economics

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Deficit

De*fect"\, n. [L. defectus, fr. deficere, defectum, to desert, fail, be wanting; de- + facere to make, do. See Fact, Feat, and cf. Deficit.]

1. Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.

Errors have been corrected, and defects supplied. --Davies.

2. Failing; fault; imperfection, whether physical or moral; blemish; as, a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment.

Trust not yourself; but, your defects to know, Make use of every friend -- and every foe. --Pope.

Among boys little tenderness is shown to personal defects. --Macaulay.

Syn: Deficiency; imperfection; blemish. See Fault.

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