deficit

Meaning of deficit

noun

the amount by which something, especially a sum of money, is too small.

late 18th century: via French from Latin deficit ‘it is lacking’, from the verb deficere (see defect1).

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Hyphenation of deficit

deficit

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  • deficit is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

deficit synonyms

Meaning shortage:

shortage, shortfall

Meaning a lack or shortage:

deficiency

Meaning an insufficient stock or amount of something:

undersupply

Meaning the action or process of slipping or subsiding:

slippage

Meaning the condition of owing money:

indebtedness

Meaning a sum of money that is owed or due:

debt

Meaning money that is owed and should have been paid earlier:

arrears

Meaning the fact or process of losing something or someone:

loss

deficit antonyms

Meaning an amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess of production or supply:

surplus

Meaning a financial gain, especially the difference between the amount earned and the amount spent in buying, operating, or producing something:

profit

Translation of deficit

Words that rhyme with deficit

sufficit, superdeficit, allicit, complicit, elicit, explicit, illicit, implicit, inexplicit, licit, nonlicit, overexplicit, presolicit, resolicit, solicit, superexplicit, supersolicit, unexplicit, unimplicit

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