deficit
Meaning of deficit
noun
the amount by which something, especially a sum of money, is too small.
late 18th century: via French from Latin deficit ‘it is lacking’, from the verb deficere (see defect1).
Information about deficit
- It is a name.
- The plural form of deficit is: deficits.
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Hyphenation of deficit
deficit
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- deficit is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
deficit synonyms
Meaning shortage:
Meaning a lack or shortage:
Meaning an insufficient stock or amount of something:
Meaning the action or process of slipping or subsiding:
Meaning the condition of owing money:
Meaning a sum of money that is owed or due:
Meaning money that is owed and should have been paid earlier:
Meaning the fact or process of losing something or someone:
deficit antonyms
Meaning an amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess of production or supply:
Meaning a financial gain, especially the difference between the amount earned and the amount spent in buying, operating, or producing something:
Translation of deficit
- French: déficit, manque, pénurie, carence
- Portuguese: déficit, carência, deficiência
- Spanish: déficit, carencia, deficiencia
- German: Defizit, Mangel
- Italian: deficit, mancanza, carenza
Words that rhyme with deficit
sufficit, superdeficit, allicit, complicit, elicit, explicit, illicit, implicit, inexplicit, licit, nonlicit, overexplicit, presolicit, resolicit, solicit, superexplicit, supersolicit, unexplicit, unimplicit
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