deficit

noun

1. 赤字；逆差；亏损
   the amount by which money spent or owed is greater than money earned in a particular period of time
   1. a budget/trade deficit
      预算赤字；贸易逆差
   2. The trade balance has been in deficit for the past five years.
      过去五年来贸易状况一直是逆差。
2. 不足额；缺款额；缺少
   the amount by which sth, especially an amount of money, is too small or smaller than sth else
   1. There's a deficit of $3 million in the total needed to complete the project.
      完成这项工程所需资金中有300万元的亏空。
   2. The team has to come back from a 2–0 deficit in the first half.
      这支队得扳回上半场0:2的落后局面。

1. N-COUNT 差额;赤字;亏损;逆差
   A deficit is the amount by which something is less than what is required or expected, especially the amount by which the total money received is less than the total money spent.
   1. They're ready to cut the federal budget deficit for the next fiscal year.
      他们已准备好削减下一财年的联邦预算赤字。
   2. ...a deficit of 3.275 billion francs.
      32.75亿法郎的赤字

1. By 1973 the government deficit equalled thirty per cent of GNP.
   到1973年，政府财政赤字相当于国民生产总值的30%。
2. He urged the administration and Congress to come up with a credible package to reduce the budget deficit.
   他敦促政府和国会出台一整套切实可行的方案，以缩减预算赤字。
3. I'm not impressed by the promise of tax cuts against the backcloth of a public-spending deficit.
   在公共开支出现赤字的情况下承诺减税让我不以为然。
4. Britain's balance of payments deficit has improved slightly.
   英国的国际收支逆差已略有改善。
5. The deficit in Britain's balance of trade in March rose to more than 2100 million pounds.
   英国3月份的贸易逆差已经增长到21亿英镑以上。
6. Last October the bank balked, alarmed that a$ 24m profit had turned into a$ 20m deficit.
   去年10月，由于对2,400万美元的利润变成了2,000万的亏损感到担心，这家银行畏缩了。
7. The deficit had grown with the connivance of the banks
   在银行的放纵之下，赤字增加了。
8. They're ready to cut the federal budget deficit for the next fiscal year.
   他们已准备好削减下一财年的联邦预算赤字。
9. The United States Congress and the President are still locked in disagreement over proposals to reduce the massive budget deficit
   美国国会和总统就削减巨额预算赤字的提案仍持不同意见，双方僵持不下。
10. Exports are dwindling and the trade deficit is swelling
    出口在缩减，贸易赤字在增长。
11. The Congressional Budget Office says the federal deficit shows every sign of getting larger
    国会预算办公室说有种种的迹象表明联邦赤字正在增加。
12. The trade deficit is the flip side of a rapidly expanding economy.
    贸易赤字是经济快速发展带来的负面产物。
13. The deficit in the US balance of payments put these considerations out of focus
    美国的国际收支逆差使这些因素没有得到关注。
14. 100,000 federal workers will be laid off to reduce the deficit
    10万联邦公务人员将被辞退以减少赤字。
15. We called up three economists to ask how to eliminate the deficit and they obliged with very straightforward answers
    我们打电话给3位经济学家询问如何消除赤字，他们坦率地给予了答复。
16. To recap briefly, an agreement negotiated to cut the budget deficit was rejected 10 days ago
    简要概括起来，一项关于削减预算赤字的协议在10天前遭到了否决。
17. He recovered from a 4-2 deficit to reach the quarter-finals
    他在2比4落后的情况下实现逆转闯进1/4决赛。
18. The deficit is now running at about 300 million dollars a year.
    现在，每年的赤字约达3亿美元。
19. President Bush has ended the stalemate over moves to cut the country's budget deficit
    布什总统已结束了在削减国家预算赤字的措施上形成的僵局。
20. Failing to tackle the deficit would be throwing away an opportunity we haven't had for a generation
    如果不能成功解决赤字问题，我们将错过等了一代人才等来的机会。
21. He made the unfortunate mistake of promising he would quit if the budget deficit was still out of control.
    他犯了个愚蠢的错误，承诺说如果预算赤字还失控，他就辞职。
22. He promised to get to work on the state's massive deficit
    他承诺着手解决国家庞大的财政赤字问题。
23. These options would actually worsen the economy and add to the deficit
    这些选择实际上只会造成经济形势更加恶化，赤字愈见增加。
24. We have a great deficit this year.
    我们今年有很大亏损。
25. The company had a deficit of$ 3000.
    这家公司亏空3000美元。
26. Rising budget deficit is beginning to bite.
    预算赤字的不断增加开始产生不良后果。

noun

1. the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required
   1. new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit

   Synonym:    shortageshortfall

2. an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period)
   1. last year there was a serious budgetary deficit

3. (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing

4. a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning
   1. the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory
   2. they have serious linguistic deficits