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Deficit (Noun)

Meaning 1

A deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning; "the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory"; "they have serious linguistic deficits".

Classification

Nouns denoting natural processes.

Hypernyms

  • Want
  • Deficiency

Meaning 2

An excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period); "last year there was a serious budgetary deficit".

Classification

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession.

Meaning 3

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

Classification

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.

Synonyms

  • Shortfall
  • Shortage

Hypernyms

  • Deficiency
  • Inadequacy

Meaning 4

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

Classification

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.

Antonyms

  • Lead
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