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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" a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning; "the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory"; "they have serious linguistic deficits" (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period); "last year there was a serious budgetary deficit"
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When lawmakers commit to spend more than the federal government receives in revenues, the difference is borrowed and becomes that year's deficit. There is a crucial distinction between the national deficit and the national debt: when the deficit goes down in a given year, it merely means lawmakers are borrowing less. Each year's deficit gets added to the national debt, which currently stands at roughly $5 trillion.
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1. In the balance of payments, or in any category of international transactions within it, the deficit is the sum of debits minus the sum of credits, or the negative of the surplus. 2. In the government budget, the deficit is the excess of government expenditures over receipts from taxes.
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A lacking or deficiency in the amount or quality of functioning.
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A lack or deficiency of an essential quality or element; for example, a neurologic deficit is a defect in the structure or function of the brain.
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