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