What is another word for deficit?
Pronunciation:
[ dˈɛfɪsˌɪt], [ dˈɛfɪsˌɪt], [ d_ˈɛ_f_ɪ_s_ˌɪ_t]
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Similar words for deficit:
- arrears (noun)
- attribute (noun)
- debit (noun)
- debt (noun)
- deficiency (noun)
- failure (noun)
- inadequacy (noun)
- incompleteness (noun)
- insolvency (noun)
- lack (noun)
- net loss (noun)
- nonfeasance (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- poverty (noun)
- shortage (noun)
- shortage of something needed, required (noun)
- unsuccess (noun)
- unsuccessfulness (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Deficit:
n.
• arrears (noun) • attribute (noun) • debit (noun) • debt (noun)- indebtedness,
- liability,
- mortgage,
- note,
- loan,
- delinquency,
- pledge,
- iou,
- voucher,
- default.
- de merit,
- de-merit,
- de fault,
- de faults,
- in sufficiency,
- de-faults,
- de merits,
- in sufficiencies,
- de-merits,
- in-sufficiency,
- de-fault,
- in-sufficiencies,
- insufficiences,
- inability hack it.
- loser,
- Unsuccess,
- non-success,
- faux pas,
- washout,
- lemon,
- total loss,
- fiasco,
- nonsuccess,
- Non-performance,
- nonfeasance,
- nonperformance,
- lead balloon,
- sinking ship,
- implosion,
- unsuccessfulness,
- insolvency.
- in effectivenesses,
- in efficacies,
- in-aptness,
- in competences,
- in-completenesses,
- in competency,
- in aptnesses,
- in-adequatenesses,
- in capacity,
- in competencies,
- in-aptnesses,
- in-competence,
- in capacities,
- faultinesses,
- un-fitness,
- in completeness,
- in-efficacy,
- in efficacy,
- in-adequacy,
- in-competences,
- in completenesses,
- in effectualness,
- in-completeness,
- in efficiencies,
- in-efficiencies,
- skimpinesses,
- un-suitablenesses,
- un-fitnesses,
- in-capacities,
- in-efficacies,
- in adequacy,
- in competence,
- inadequatenesses,
- in-effectiveness,
- un suitablenesses,
- in-adequacies,
- inaptnesses,
- un suitableness,
- in-effectualnesses,
- in-effectivenesses,
- in-efficiency,
- incompletenesses,
- in effectualnesses,
- un fitnesses,
- in aptness,
- in-adequateness,
- in adequacies,
- in effectiveness,
- un-suitableness,
- in adequateness,
- in-capacity,
- in-competency,
- in adequatenesses,
- in-effectualness,
- in efficiency,
- un fitness,
- in-competencies,
- defectivenesses.
- fraction,
- sectional,
- omission,
- fragmentation,
- curtailment,
- need,
- gap,
- hiatus,
- segmental,
- part,
- discontinuity.
- flaw,
- Insufficience,
- poverty,
- incompetency,
- debit,
- inadequacy,
- failings,
- lack,
- incompleteness,
- inadequateness,
- inaptness,
- unsuitableness,
- inefficiencies,
- liabilities,
- scantiness,
- Non-feasance,
- skimpiness,
- unpaid bills,
- failure,
- faultiness,
- debt,
- defalcations,
- net loss,
- defalcation,
- deficiency,
- losses,
- unpaid bill,
- shortage,
- back payment,
- inefficacy,
- inability to hack it,
- back payments,
- defectiveness,
- balance due,
- obligation.
v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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•
- absence,
- nonattendance,
- scarceness,
- loss,
- scantness,
- Without,
- defect,
- absent,
- bankruptcy.
- demote,
- unexpectedly,
- go bad,
- unsuitability,
- in part,
- equipage,
- bruise,
- brusk,
- theatrical role,
- mention,
- weak,
- disappearance,
- residual,
- lemon tree,
- certificate of indebtedness,
- break off,
- capably,
- minor,
- lemon yellow,
- notice,
- exquisitely,
- bring out,
- brusque,
- opening,
- pay up,
- reduction,
- pull in,
- lamentable,
- office,
- mingy,
- forgetful,
- swag,
- mirthfully,
- jailbreak,
- peculation,
- absurd,
- conjecture,
- subtraction,
- conflict,
- wretched,
- nasty,
- eviscerate,
- as luck would have it,
- last,
- fumbling,
- stingy,
- set out,
- compressed,
- gleefully,
- cut down,
- dispirit,
- bump,
- equilibrium,
- disclose,
- falloff,
- yield,
- miscarry,
- sop up,
- ease off,
- supposition,
- good-hearted,
- distinction,
- losings,
- turnover rate,
- languish,
- shortsighted,
- dwindle down,
- pitiable,
- blotto,
- thread,
- tone down,
- breaking,
- execrable,
- rest,
- deviation,
- pass up,
- humble,
- degenerate,
- internet,
- falling off,
- girdle,
- eminence,
- ineptness,
- deduction,
- short-circuit,
- attractively,
- let on,
- abridge,
- short letter,
- benevolent,
- deduce,
- going,
- iris,
- subjugate,
- bray,
- backdown,
- voice,
- region,
- crash,
- discover,
- overleap,
- take note,
- recrudesce,
- overabundance,
- slack off,
- droop,
- skip,
- trace,
- let up,
- prison-breaking,
- circumstantially,
- uncomplete,
- quotation,
- drag,
- desert,
- get around,
- shrinkage,
- character,
- correct,
- pauperisation,
- plastered,
- juvenile delinquency,
- split up,
- unawares,
- debit entry,
- musical score,
- piece,
- describe,
- frail,
- infer,
- balance wheel,
- gimpy,
- well,
- meshing,
- meagreness,
- recess,
- degradation,
- mesh,
- parting,
- sectioned,
- getup,
- inefficaciousness,
- sack up,
- wassail,
- lucre,
- vacuum,
- breach,
- attract,
- muffle,
- relegate,
- rack up,
- fleet,
- venture,
- proceeds,
- die out,
- curt,
- unwrap,
- remove,
- suspension,
- equaliser,
- slacken off,
- kick the bucket,
- default option,
- low quality,
- divergence,
- pauperization,
- omit,
- unqualified,
- draw and quarter,
- brush off,
- bust,
- divest,
- employee turnover,
- derive,
- abstracted,
- myopic,
- partitioning,
- suck up,
- uneffective,
- willful neglect,
- detachment,
- scotch,
- cite,
- give away,
- set forth,
- function,
- stop,
- wither,
- nett,
- declension,
- die away,
- equilibrise,
- greenback,
- climb-down,
- libra,
- disembowel,
- step-down,
- dispute,
- tractor trailer,
- profits,
- equilibrize,
- unfavorable position,
- pull,
- croak,
- spoil,
- continuous tense,
- boil down,
- comminute,
- interrupt,
- open frame,
- recoup,
- charitable,
- loanword,
- rot,
- intermit,
- guess,
- cripple,
- abruptly,
- expose,
- spite,
- payoff,
- pass,
- spare,
- fuddled,
- counterweight,
- government note,
- turn down,
- variant,
- involve,
- transgress,
- good luck,
- reveal,
- return,
- meager,
- grievance,
- openhearted,
- pull back,
- sympathetic,
- respite,
- descent,
- dextrously,
- crack,
- remuneration,
- inappositeness,
- extra,
- line,
- slenderize,
- ineffectual,
- pulling out,
- debt instrument,
- exit,
- constituent,
- imperfectness,
- by chance,
- slack,
- push aside,
- disruption,
- square,
- imperfect tense,
- hypothesis,
- blind drunk,
- ruin,
- mendicancy,
- subdue,
- flop,
- whipping,
- halting,
- mar,
- thin out,
- string,
- shorten,
- scurvy,
- pettiness,
- abject,
- closely,
- expire,
- salute,
- slake,
- masthead,
- contract,
- stringent,
- negligence,
- compaction,
- issue,
- break away,
- set,
- attractor,
- sack,
- dismiss,
- withdraw,
- calamity,
- check,
- role,
- red,
- equipoise,
- pass off,
- time interval,
- incompetence,
- declination,
- cast down,
- unintentionally,
- lot,
- compensate,
- progressive tense,
- snap off,
- onanism,
- crack-up,
- blemish,
- come down,
- cut,
- license,
- deflower,
- sozzled,
- void,
- founder,
- bomb,
- fast,
- hurt,
- chirpy,
- deject,
- dashing hopes,
- separation,
- remark,
- persona,
- devolve,
- dismay,
- slip,
- humiliate,
- divide,
- subscript,
- percentage,
- price reduction,
- take,
- perky,
- manipulate,
- decay,
- meditation,
- turn a loss,
- low,
- ridiculous,
- bear,
- merrily,
- evanesce,
- gruffness,
- accredit,
- taut,
- supernumerary,
- abruptness,
- dollar volume,
- concentrate,
- trim back,
- incompetent person,
- dwindle away,
- drawing card,
- fleur-de-lis,
- net income,
- division,
- responsibility,
- redundant,
- wish,
- mortify,
- start out,
- break-dance,
- disregard,
- pie-eyed,
- grade,
- give,
- fallible,
- fall away,
- financial obligation,
- worsen,
- stifle,
- brush aside,
- abasement,
- unskilled,
- personnel casualty,
- erupt,
- assurance,
- dull,
- unretentive,
- upset,
- counterbalance,
- geological fault,
- jubilantly,
- falling out,
- wear,
- draw off,
- stint,
- sword lily,
- go under,
- pall,
- signal flag,
- get out,
- slice,
- nonstarter,
- jejune,
- wane,
- blunt,
- pin,
- tally,
- weaken,
- laughable,
- abbreviate,
- repress,
- mean,
- shrink,
- tone,
- decoct,
- gayly,
- slouch,
- scrimpy,
- default on,
- offend,
- wound,
- surfeit,
- strip,
- measly,
- misappropriation,
- foreshorten,
- haul,
- credit entry,
- soak up,
- squiffy,
- catastrophe,
- trucking rig,
- curtness,
- lessen,
- drop-off,
- crocked,
- mute,
- uneconomical,
- betray,
- scraunch,
- draw poker,
- drug withdrawal,
- paltry,
- diminution,
- wishing,
- damp,
- decease,
- become flat,
- pissed,
- web,
- give-up the ghost,
- apropos,
- pass away,
- give way,
- guide,
- chagrin,
- split,
- substandard,
- close,
- break out,
- meantime,
- trim down,
- salary,
- progressive,
- semi,
- ape-man,
- game,
- credit rating,
- musical note,
- emptiness,
- puff,
- preposterous,
- observe,
- reject,
- moisten,
- divulge,
- hook,
- trim,
- minify,
- pay off,
- goldmine,
- absorb,
- tie,
- earnings,
- meshwork,
- scatty,
- secession,
- privation,
- infract,
- flimsy,
- indigence,
- distressing,
- triviality,
- atomisation,
- slim down,
- crippled,
- cut back,
- payable,
- rift,
- keep down,
- reprieve,
- collapse,
- piteous,
- bank note,
- choke,
- overindulgence,
- bungling,
- billet,
- press down,
- buy the farm,
- draw play,
- federal reserve note,
- annotation,
- slaughter,
- poise,
- nonsensical,
- rigging,
- poor,
- prisonbreak,
- fishing rig,
- clear,
- mash,
- suffering,
- recognition,
- lessening,
- cave in,
- preeminence,
- melt off,
- articulated lorry,
- grudge,
- tragedy,
- final,
- pop off,
- trouncing,
- flagstone,
- idiotic,
- propitiously,
- run,
- sorry,
- sad,
- exclude,
- feeble,
- slicing,
- bring down,
- decrement,
- breakage,
- refuse,
- proportion,
- abatement,
- fall,
- depart,
- cast,
- slopped,
- descend,
- declivity,
- standoff,
- delicacy,
- impoverish,
- miserly,
- require,
- slimness,
- passing,
- gaffe,
- fall apart,
- hapless,
- portion,
- lower status,
- let out,
- take up,
- wash,
- call for,
- unable,
- surplusage,
- curtly,
- flunk,
- one-half,
- walloping,
- counterpoise,
- munch,
- cranch,
- lower rank,
- scummy,
- discount rate,
- pixilated,
- soused,
- nock,
- atomization,
- symmetry,
- partly,
- move over,
- ludicrous,
- rebate,
- get,
- metameric,
- by the way,
- rupture,
- subscribe,
- promissory note,
- profit,
- little,
- suffer,
- break up,
- poorness,
- take out,
- seduce,
- start,
- get down,
- residue,
- take down,
- deoxidise,
- wage,
- shift,
- verifier,
- gamboge,
- overturn,
- lower,
- violate,
- turnout,
- drop dead,
- oddment,
- gaolbreak,
- happy chance,
- blank,
- crackle,
- network,
- plight,
- depict,
- interruption,
- withhold,
- drop,
- cyberspace,
- floaty,
- account,
- negative,
- suddenly,
- devote,
- segmented,
- depression,
- break of serve,
- dilute,
- downslope,
- surmisal,
- tighten,
- uncover,
- sink,
- duty,
- severance,
- thrashing,
- unequal,
- smash,
- nimiety,
- soaked,
- cataclysm,
- soften,
- symmetricalness,
- flush it,
- make up,
- dud,
- unequal to,
- motivation,
- kick downstairs,
- breakout,
- run out,
- sexual conquest,
- subtract,
- woeful,
- overlook,
- rigorous,
- fishing tackle,
- excessiveness,
- ask,
- go against,
- perish,
- letdown,
- shortstop,
- discontinue,
- gaucherie,
- burst,
- equalizer,
- suck,
- col,
- pathetic,
- quash,
- fracture,
- set off,
- maize,
- break in,
- grind,
- postulate,
- bankrupt,
- shortly,
- variance,
- demoralise,
- nonremittal,
- notation,
- go wrong,
- missing,
- low-down,
- stinker,
- go,
- delineate,
- give out,
- cockeyed,
- surmise,
- departure,
- section,
- coupon,
- outfit,
- carelessness,
- make,
- permit,
- bank discount,
- downsizing,
- blow over,
- break down,
- lend,
- short-change,
- note of hand,
- deoxidize,
- famishment,
- imbibe,
- deletion,
- mark,
- misapplication,
- scranch,
- acknowledgment,
- fall in,
- haulage,
- dereliction,
- withdrawal method,
- leave off,
- motive,
- decomposition,
- crush,
- residuum,
- carriage,
- demand,
- separate,
- puniness,
- stiff,
- disagreement,
- drubbing,
- slim,
- clumsy,
- cash in one's chips,
- tackle,
- expiration,
- loaded,
- thin,
- contribution,
- skimp,
- miss,
- embezzlement,
- drink,
- correspondence,
- ably,
- trailer truck,
- unreal,
- intermission,
- scale down,
- meanwhile,
- collectable,
- come apart,
- draw in,
- deplorable,
- certify,
- unsuccessful person,
- pull out,
- inordinateness,
- conk out,
- sloshed,
- dice,
- banker's bill,
- break dance,
- putrefaction,
- musical interval,
- light,
- by the bye,
- leanness,
- dead,
- spread,
- fishing gear,
- economic crisis,
- craunch,
- set up,
- disunite,
- component part,
- citation,
- truncation,
- banknote,
- wet,
- foramen,
- bank bill,
- take in,
- also-ran,
- settle,
- net profit,
- take away,
- conk,
- unforesightful,
- except,
- cheat,
- supererogatory,
- blithely,
- better,
- superfluous,
- fault,
- misfortunate,
- unsubstantial,
- nonaged,
- proportionality,
- sag,
- swindle,
- necessitate,
- pretermit,
- release,
- attraction,
- take off,
- melt,
- end,
- ante up,
- develop,
- neglect,
- wanting,
- share,
- snuff it,
- pause,
- dislocation,
- vitiate,
- reap,
- course credit,
- evasion,
- meagerly,
- equilibrate,
- demoralize,
- suppression,
- difference of opinion,
- competently,
- remnant,
- quarter,
- ignore,
- brusqueness,
- uncompleted,
- favourably,
- equipment failure,
- lag,
- desire,
- reference,
- slenderness,
- time out,
- smashed,
- slide down,
- halt,
- besotted,
- partially,
- solecism,
- component,
- starving,
- absentminded,
- belittle,
- wear out,
- hooking,
- fine,
- toast,
- bill,
- rotting.
How to use "Deficit" in context?
The deficit is the shortfall between how much the government spends and how much it takes in through tax revenue. Deficits can occur in any fiscal year, but they are especially common during times of slack economic growth when revenues don't keep pace with spending. Declining tax revenue most often reflects slower economic growth, reductions in federal aid (especially for social programs like Medicare and Medicaid), and a shift in taxes from high-income earners to lower- and middle-income taxpayers. Fiscal austerity - decreased government spending as a percentage of GDP - may also contribute to deficits since it increases the amount that must be raised in taxes.
Paraphrases for Deficit:
Paraphrases are highlighted according to their relevancy:
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Equivalence
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Proper noun, singular
shortfall.
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Noun, singular or mass
shortfall.
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Proper noun, singular
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Forward Entailment
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Proper noun, singular
deficiency.
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Noun, singular or mass
insufficiency.
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Proper noun, singular
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Independent
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Noun, singular or mass
backwardness, dearth, debt, defect, disadvantage, inadequacy, incompetence, loophole, scarcity.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Other Related
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Noun, singular or mass
deficiency, flaw, shortcoming, surplus.
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Noun, singular or mass
Homophones for Deficit:
- defect, deep south, debauched, debased, dibasic acid, deep-seated, data-based, defaced, devastate, divagate, depict, diffused, depicted, dope sheet, deep-chested, divest, deep-set, dopastat, dovecote, de facto, diapsid, diapsida, deposit, deep pocket.
Hypernym for Deficit:
n.
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attribute
oxygen deficit.
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possession
budget deficit, trade deficit.
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attribute
Hyponym for Deficit:
n.
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attribute
inadequacy, deficiency, insufficiency.
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possession
liabilities.
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quantity
score.
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state
lack, deficiency, want.
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attribute
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