deficit

[ˈdefɪsɪt]

Definition:
1. The property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required.
2. An excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period).

Use 'deficit' in a sentence:

• 1. Taxes only get part of the way toward a $50 billion deficit.
• 2. For the first five months of 2007, the trade deficit actually fell 7 percent from 2006.
• 3. The budget deficit has ballooned to$ 25 billion.
• 4. There has been a sharp increase in Indian's balance of payment deficit.
• 5. In 1969, as the strains between America's budget deficit and the dollar's gold peg emerged, an artificial reserve asset was created.
• 6. They're ready to cut the federal budget deficit for the next fiscal year.
• 7. The United States Congress and the president are still locked in disagreement over proposals to reduce the massive budget deficit.
• 8. The trade deficit remains the soft underbelly of the US economy.
• 9. These options would actually worsen the economy and add to the deficit.
• 10. To recap briefly, an agreement negotiated to cut the budget deficit was rejected 10 days ago.
• 11. Britain's balance of payments deficit has improved slightly.
• 12. The US trade deficit widened to$ 7.59 billion in November.
• 13. The money tourists spend helps decrease our chronic trade deficit.
• 14. If deficit reduction aggravates these biases, more Americans may choose not to have children or to have fewer children.
• 15. Mr. Balls, like him a former disciple of Mr. Brown, is thought to disdain his woolly line on the deficit.
• 16. The overriding problem is the continuing deficit financing of the federal government.
• 17. Exports are dwindling and the trade deficit is swelling.
• 18. By 1973 the government deficit equalled thirty per cent of GNP.
• 19. We have a great deficit this year.
• 20. I'm not impressed by the promise of tax cuts against the backcloth of a public-spending deficit.
• 21. In the same way, a significant reduction of wasteful agricultural subsidies could also lower the deficit.
• 22. There's been a sharp increase in Indian's balance of payment deficit.
• 23. He promised to get to work on the state's massive deficit.
• 24. The deficit in Britain's balance of trade in March rose to more than 2100 million pounds.
• 25. The deficit had grown with the connivance of the banks.
• 26. The deficit is now running at about 300 million dollars a year.
• 27. The larger the trade deficit, the smaller the GDP.
• 28. The team has to come back from a 2 – 0 deficit in the first half.
• 29. There's a deficit of$ 3 million in the total needed to complete the project.
• 30. The trade balance has been in deficit for the past five years.
• 31. Deficit hawks still worry about the cost of the proposal.
• 32. The luxury tax won't really do much to pare down the budget deficit.
• 33. A simple consumption tax of, say, 5% would significantly reduce the country's huge government deficit without damaging productivity.
• 34. He urged the administration and Congress to come up with a credible package to reduce the budget deficit.
• 35. The trade deficit is the flip side of a rapidly expanding economy.
• 36. Last October the bank balked, alarmed that a$ 24m profit had turned into a$ 20m deficit.
• 37. The United States Congress and the President are still locked in disagreement over proposals to reduce the massive budget deficit.
• 38. Failing to tackle the deficit would be throwing away an opportunity we haven't had for a generation.
• 39. The Congressional Budget Office says the federal deficit shows every sign of getting larger.
• 40. President Bush has ended the stalemate over moves to cut the country's budget deficit.
• 41. Last October the bank balked, alarmed that a $24M profit had turned into a $20M deficit.
• 42. 100,000 federal workers will be laid off to reduce the deficit.
• 43. If you're truly horrified by the budget deficit, why not propose tax increases as part of the solution?
• 44. The dry statistics ought to inform the ongoing deficit debate, because a budget is not just a catalog of programs and taxes.
• 45. The US trade deficit grew to just under $30 billion in the third quarter.
• 46. We called up three economists to ask how to eliminate the deficit and they obliged with very straightforward answers.
• 47. Given the overriding need to cut the budget deficit, the administration will ask congress for only$ 15 million this summer.
• 48. Both countries suffer from soaring unemployment, large budget deficits and wobbly financial sectors.
• 49. The deficit in the US balance of payments put these considerations out of focus.
• 50. He recovered from a 4-2 deficit to reach the quarter-finals.