DEFICIT: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for DEFICIT?

Need another word that means the same as “deficit”? Find 5 synonyms and 30 related words for “deficit” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Deficit” are: shortage, shortfall, deficiency, undersupply, slippage

Deficit as a Noun

Definitions of "Deficit" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “deficit” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning.
• The score by which a team or individual is losing.
• An excess of expenditure or liabilities over income or assets in a given period.
• An excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period.
• (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing.
• The property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required.
• (in sport) the amount or score by which a team or individual is losing.
• The amount by which something, especially a sum of money, is too small.
• A deficiency or failing, especially in a neurological or psychological function.

Synonyms of "Deficit" as a noun (5 Words)

deficiency	Lack of an adequate quantity or number. Water is the critical deficiency in desert regions.
shortage	A state or situation in which something needed cannot be obtained in sufficient amounts. The problems of land shortage in the countryside.
shortfall	The property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required. They are facing an expected 10 billion shortfall in revenue.
slippage	Decline from a standard level of performance or achievement. Slippage on any job will entail slippage on the overall project.
undersupply	An insufficient stock or amount of something. House price inflation has largely been caused by undersupply.

Usage Examples of "Deficit" as a noun

• A 3–0 deficit.
• The balance of payments is again in deficit.
• The people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory.
• New blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit.
• Deficits in speech comprehension.
• They have serious linguistic deficits.
• An annual operating deficit.
• Last year there was a serious budgetary deficit.

Associations of "Deficit" (30 Words)

ante	Put up an amount as an ante in poker or brag and similar games. He anted up 925 000 of his own money.
austerity	The trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures. He was noted for his austerity and his authoritarianism.
barter	Goods or services used in bartering. We had no money so we had to live by barter.
budget	Provide a sum of money for a particular purpose from a budget. Keep within the household budget.
commerce	The activity of buying and selling, especially on a large scale. The noise and warmth of human commerce.
cutback	A reduction in quantity or rate. Cutbacks in defence spending.
dealing	A personal connection or association with someone. Share dealings.
dearth	A situation where food is in short supply. There is a dearth of evidence.
emporium	A large retail store selling a wide variety of goods.
export	Of a high standard suitable for export. Nearly all the bananas produced were exported to Britain.
exporter	A businessperson who transports goods abroad (for sale. Japan has only begun to be an exporter of culture in the last couple of decades.
famine	Extreme scarcity of food. Drought resulted in famine throughout the region.
fiscal	A legal or treasury official in some countries. Monetary and fiscal policy.
halve	Divide by two divide into halves. The sills are usually halved and pinned together at the corners.
hunger	Feel or suffer hunger. Her hunger for knowledge.
insufficiency	The condition of being insufficient. Insufficiency of adequate housing.
lack	Be without or deficient in. There is a lack of parking space in the town.
mercantile	Of or relating to the economic system of mercantilism. Preached a mercantile and militant patriotism.
need	Have or feel a need for. Lest you even more than needs embitter our parting.
needy	Needy people collectively. Needy and elderly people.
poverty	The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions. The poverty of her imagination.
protectionism	The policy of imposing duties or quotas on imports in order to protect home industries from overseas competition.
scarcity	A small and inadequate amount. A time of scarcity.
shortage	An acute insufficiency. A shortage of hard cash.
shortfall	A deficit of something required or expected. They are facing an expected 10 billion shortfall in revenue.
spending	The act of spending or disbursing money.
starve	Force someone out of (a place) or into (a specified state) by starvation. The Royalists were starved out after eleven days.
swap	An exchange of liabilities between two borrowers, either so that each acquires access to funds in a currency they need or so that a fixed interest rate is exchanged for a floating rate. I swapped my busy life in London for a peaceful village retreat.
tariff	A list of import or export tariffs. These services are tariffed by volume.
trade	Be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions. In the trade this sort of computer is called a client based system.