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The synonyms of “Deficits” are: shortage, shortfall
Deficits as a Noun
Definitions of "Deficits" as a noun
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “deficits” as a noun can have the following definitions:
- (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.
- An excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period.
- The score by which a team or individual is losing.
- A deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning.
Synonyms of "Deficits" as a noun (2 Words)
shortage | An acute insufficiency. Food shortages. |
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. |
Usage Examples of "Deficits" as a noun
- They have serious linguistic deficits.
- New blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit.
- Last year there was a serious budgetary deficit.
- The people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory.
Associations of "Deficits" (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. The country was subjected to acute economic austerity. |
barter | The action or system of bartering. Paper money ceases to have any value and people resort to barter. |
budget | Provide a sum of money for a particular purpose from a budget. A budget guitar. |
commerce | The United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913. The changes in taxation are of benefit to commerce. |
cutback | A reduction in quantity or rate. Cutbacks in defence spending. |
dealing | Business relations or transactions. Share dealings. |
dearth | An insufficient quantity or number. 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. Wool and mohair were the principal exports. |
exporter | A person or group spreading or introducing ideas and beliefs to another country. Japan has only begun to be an exporter of culture in the last couple of decades. |
famine | Hunger. The cotton famine of the 1860s. |
fiscal | An African shrike (songbird) with black-and-white plumage. Monetary and fiscal policy. |
halve | Divide by two divide into halves. Pre tax profits nearly halved to 5 m. |
hunger | Feel or suffer hunger. He hungered for a sense of self worth. |
insufficiency | A lack of competence. Renal insufficiency. |
lack | The state of being without or not having enough of something. This soup lacks salt. |
mercantile | Relating to or characteristic of trade or traders- Van Wyck Brooks. Preached a mercantile and militant patriotism. |
need | Have need of. She satisfied his need for affection. |
needy | Needy people collectively. Needy and elderly people. |
poverty | The state of being inferior in quality or insufficient in amount. The poverty of her imagination. |
protectionism | The theory or practice of shielding a country’s domestic industries from foreign competition by taxing imports. |
scarcity | A small and inadequate amount. The growing scarcity of resources. |
shortage | A state or situation in which something needed cannot be obtained in sufficient amounts. A shortage of hard cash. |
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. |
spending | The act of spending or disbursing money. |
starve | Be freezing cold. The political prisoners starved to death. |
swap | Move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science. I ve got one already but I ll keep this as a swap. |
tariff | Charge a tariff. Tariff imported goods. |
trade | A trade wind. They trade mud shark livers for fish oil. |