deficit

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noun

1. the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required (Freq. 1)
- new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit
• Syn:
shortage, shortfall
• Hypernyms:
insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
• Hyponyms:
oxygen 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
• Hypernyms:
lack, deficiency, want
3. (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing
• Ant:
lead
• Topics:
sport, athletics
• Hypernyms:
score
4. an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period)
- last year there was a serious budgetary deficit
• Hypernyms:
liabilities
• Hyponyms:
budget deficit, trade deficit

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  shortage, shortfall