| 单词 | deficit |
| 释义 | deficit (defəsɪt ) Word forms: deficits countable noun [oft noun NOUN] 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. They're ready to cut the federal budget deficit for the next fiscal year. ...a deficit of 3.275 billion francs. in deficit phrase If an account or organization is in deficit, more money has been spent than has been received. The current account of the balance of payments is in deficit. Collocations: big deficit The current account went from big deficit to balance in an export-led recovery. Times, Sunday Times As we should all know by now, whoever forms the next government will still have a big deficit to deal with. Times, Sunday Times Their closest match was in the round of 16 where they overturned a big deficit - this board made the difference. Times, Sunday Times He knew there was a big deficit coming. Globe and Mail It was another big deficit to overcome. Globe and Mail Countries with large current account deficits are more vulnerable to financial and currency crises; those with surpluses can build up financial reserves to protect themselves in the future. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Weekend media reports raised the possibility that the country could tumble into current current account deficit by the middle of the decade. Times, Sunday Times (2010) The current account deficit widened dramatically. Times, Sunday Times (2009) It is a message to those who argue that it is impossible for a country to cut its deficit and grow at the same time. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Cutting the deficit is not enough: cutting the debt is required. Times, Sunday Times (2011) The two men agree that the deficit must be cut as a priority. Times, Sunday Times (2011) It contradicts the idea of the deficit hawk purveying itchy truths to the masses. Times, Sunday Times He considers himself a deficit hawk because of his calls for a balanced federal budget, in spite of his support for farm subsidies. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Now the deficit hawks have flown, the fund's policies could not be more different, but the inflexibility remains. Times, Sunday Times For deficit hawks, the popularity of the pledge among presidential candidates may seem to be a hopeful sign. Christianity Today Other aspects are less pleasing to conservative deficit hawks. Times, Sunday Times The first is that it must protect its central deficit reduction policy. Times, Sunday Times (2011) There is no sustainable route to deficit reduction except by cutting spending. Times, Sunday Times (2014) They will live or die together on the basis of their deficit reduction plan. Times, Sunday Times (2010) The need to stick to the target for fiscal deficit reduction was voted the most important. Times, Sunday Times (2010) We have announced the most bold deficit reduction plan for the next four years, far bolder in detail than that given by any of the other parties. Times, Sunday Times (2010) As the deficit rises and foreign investors pull out, borrowing costs could escalate. Times, Sunday Times The economy contracts sharply and the budget deficit rises rapidly. Times, Sunday Times Living away, the deficit rises to $13,000 or so. Globe and Mail So we must work together to eliminate the deficit and start to run a budget surplus. The Sun (2015) The plan to eliminate the deficit is long gone. Times, Sunday Times (2013) It has been clear in defining a plan to eliminate the deficit and resolute in carrying it out. Times, Sunday Times (2011) If it had tried, it would have worsened the external deficit and needed a larger bailout when the reckoning came. Times, Sunday Times He inherited an unusually large external deficit on the balance of trade. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The external deficit was driven up primarily by high rates of growth of domestic demand and production through 1974. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They were running big external deficits in 2009-10, when international investors lost confidence. Times, Sunday Times Austerity undoubtedly created a bitter recession, but without it these economies would have built up still larger external deficits and required bigger bailouts when the reckoning came. Times, Sunday Times Over 15 years, the private sector would face a deficit of 71 per household if it was to invest alone. Times, Sunday Times The service faces a deficit of 2.45 billion. Times, Sunday Times Consequently, it faced a deficit of 300,000 euros. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He took a general fund facing a deficit, restored it to solvency, and kept it healthy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Effectively, they played the opposite of what a normal club would do if they faced a deficit, willingly giving up many easy points instead of making attempts to rally back. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He emphasised the importance of tackling the federal deficit, restructuring the tax code and implementing government spending cuts. Times, Sunday Times That's nearly half the size of the federal deficit. Times, Sunday Times The burgeoning federal deficit marks the end of the dollar as a reserve currency. Times, Sunday Times But if they are overly optimistic, revenues will be insufficient to prevent the federal deficit from rising. Times, Sunday Times He spoke as more grim economic news emerged, and as the federal deficit was revealed to be on course to surge to well over $1 trillion (650 billion). Times, Sunday Times Yesterday's Budget aims to resume a plan to cut the country's fiscal deficit, after a one-year pause. Times, Sunday Times (2006) He insists that the Government will meet its target of halving the fiscal deficit in five years. Times, Sunday Times (2009) A huge fiscal deficit resulted in the early 1990s. Times, Sunday Times (2015) An autonomous central bank could help to fund the deficit by buying government bonds. Times, Sunday Times To fund that deficit, it will need to import capital. Times, Sunday Times Governments raise money to fund their deficits by selling bonds — a kind of debt — in the financial markets. Times, Sunday Times He is expected to provide details on how the party would meet its promise to halve the deficit over four years. Times, Sunday Times (2010) He spoke of aggressive cuts in the next spending review to try to halve the deficit. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Tackling benefit fraud and collecting unpaid tax could almost halve the Budget deficit. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Having inherited a huge deficit in the public finances, the coalition has launched an unprecedented programme of spending cuts. Times, Sunday Times And we have some deep and pressing problems, a huge deficit, deep social problems and a political system in need of reform. The Sun But yesterday he insisted he was right to focus on cutting public spending to help bring down the huge deficit. The Sun A huge deficit of 180m meant there would not be enough to pay the promised pensions. Times, Sunday Times Being dismissed for 77 opened up a huge deficit. Times, Sunday Times Returning the railways to public ownership line by line could halt investment in trains and increase the deficit by more than 10 billion, according to industry experts and officials. Times, Sunday Times Are you going to have to increase the deficit by that much over 10 years? Globe and Mail As well as paying for new pension promises, universities also must increase their deficit contributions. Times, Sunday Times Under the rules governing tax bills, the reforms, which in this case means tax cuts, must be revenue-neutral - they cannot increase the deficit. Times, Sunday Times Levin thought the bill would increase the deficit. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A government running such a large deficit cannot yet claim to be a responsible custodian of the nation's finances. Times, Sunday Times Yet when they made the promise, the large deficit was not unexpected. Times, Sunday Times No explanation of how the still historically large deficit will eventually be closed. Times, Sunday Times Capital inflows from abroad would be needed to offset this very large deficit. Times, Sunday Times By the time the economy began to grow again there was a large deficit, peaking at 7.8 per cent. Times, Sunday Times It will be decades before the lessons of the massive deficit disappear altogether. Times, Sunday Times No sooner have we begun to make progress taming the massive deficit than we have started trying to hand out free lunches again. Times, Sunday Times So now, public spending will have to be reduced in order to avoid the costs of a massive deficit. Times, Sunday Times These were then too shallow to pay down our massive deficit. The Sun The legislature was more concerned with reducing the states massive deficit (roughly a quarter of billion dollars in modern currency). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Cerebrovascular insufficiency, i.e. insufficient blood flow to the brain, may manifest itself as memory deficit, disturbed concentration or headaches. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Long-term injuries are usually neurological in nature, including memory deficit, sleep disturbance, chronic pain, and chronic dizziness. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Additionally, motivational mechanisms may also account for this memory deficit in groups due to social loafing. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Studies have shown that even slight dehydration slows the rate at which nutrients can enter the brain, producing short-term memory deficits and reasoning difficulties, among other cognitive woes. Times, Sunday Times Researchers also expanded the study of working memory, central executive, and further research on memory deficits and learning. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The overall deficit of these trusts for 2015 was a record 2.5 billion. Times, Sunday Times It has promised to reduce the overall deficit each year and get national debt down. Times, Sunday Times The government's overall deficit outlook has also brightened. canada.com The overall deficit between imports and exports of goods increased by 3 billion to 25.7 billion. Times, Sunday Times Borrowing to invest - running an overall deficit - would leave debt close to current high levels. Times, Sunday Times Despite improved play during the second half of the season, they could not overcome the deficit from early on in the season. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A fall in the short program put her 3rd in that phase, and although she won the long program it was not enough to overcome her deficit. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Lacking extensive formal training, he overcame this deficit and became an able and serious researcher. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He then lost many points on the 5000 m, but he overcame that deficit by winning the 1500 m. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was also the first time in a two-game season series that the winning team in each game overcame a deficit of more than 17 points. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This more than outweighed the performance deficit in the test from standstill to 62mph to zero again. Times, Sunday Times All his talent and determination may not be enough to overcome the performance deficit he faces. Times, Sunday Times This left them with a significant performance deficit compared with their turbo-powered rivals. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Low contrast, close proximity of neighboring stimuli (crowding), temporal asynchrony of pattern components are examples of factors that cause performance deficits. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Faced with the railways persistent deficit, the colonial authority decided to close the railways. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A third problem relates to the financial effects of globalisation, which can lead to imbalances between countries that run persistent trade surpluses and those that run persistent deficits. Times, Sunday Times Several studies have shown persistent deficits in cognitive function in workers chronically exposed to pesticides. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Even if spending on defence remains flat, the projected deficit will be some 36 billion. Times, Sunday Times The state faces a projected deficit of $15.4 billion (10.2 billion) - or more if voters reject a series of cuts in a ballot next week. Times, Sunday Times The state legislature remained in deadlock, unable to agree by a two-thirds majority on tax measures to deal with the projected deficit. Times, Sunday Times In 2001, the district had a projected deficit of $216.7 million in its current $1.7 billion budget. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Eliminating the cap would make this a more progressive tax and would reduce or eliminate the projected deficit. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The trade gap in gas and other fuels more than doubled in a month to a record deficit of 373 million. Times, Sunday Times We are still in a big fiscal mess, with a record deficit and a level of debt that will carry on rising for several years. Times, Sunday Times You may question this, and point to the sharp 2008-9 swing into record deficit in the public finances as evidence. Times, Sunday Times A record deficit, defence cuts and now strikes. The Sun He inherited a huge surplus that has become a record deficit. canada.com Australia surged back and reduced the deficit with six minutes remaining but failed to breach a resolute defence. Times, Sunday Times (2010) City should have reduced the deficit soon after when sub Ireland was sent racing clear but he miscued his shot horribly into the stands. The Sun (2006) Her budget will be full of swingeing public sector cuts as she struggles to reduce the deficit. Times, Sunday Times (2006) Pessimists say that if such an administration could not decide how to reduce the deficit, the prices of government gilt-edged stocks would fall. Times, Sunday Times (2010) However, meeting the revenue deficit target has been deferred by another year. Outlook India Take the revenue deficit, for instance. Outlook India She argued the case for abolition based on equal rights for all citizens and the need to reduce the government's revenue deficit. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The resulting fiscal deficit was 4,00,996 crore while revenue deficit was 2,82,735 crore. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The resulting fiscal deficit was while revenue deficit was. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Labour would tax more and cut less and would run a deficit on the capital account to permit investment while interest rates are low. Times, Sunday Times How long can we run a deficit? Times, Sunday Times Last month the president said that he was willing to run a deficit 'to fuel the well in order to really get the economy going'. Times, Sunday Times The private sector has retrenched and moved into long-term financial surplus, so the public sector has to run a deficit to compensate. Times, Sunday Times He has pledged not to run a deficit, and that means there'll be little opportunity to prove that he has an expansive social agenda. Globe and Mail A financial crisis overlapped with a recession that left the country with a severe deficit. Times, Sunday Times They had a severe deficit in auditory comprehension. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Patients showed mild deficits in verbal communication skills, and moderate to severe deficits in nonverbal communication skills such as maintaining eye contact, initiating greetings, and responding appropriately. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The north has a skill deficit in this area. Times, Sunday Times The whole issue of graduate skills deficits, of course, begs the question of the value of today's degree. Times, Sunday Times That compares with a countrywide manufacturing skills deficit believed to average at 41 per cent. Times, Sunday Times Skill deficits may lead to poor performance directly (failure to adequately learn the material) or indirectly (awareness of being ill-prepared causes anxiety that, in turn, leads to poor performance). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They also pointed to studies that revealed impaired theory of mind skill in alexithymia, neuroanatomical evidence pointing to a shared etiology and similar social skills deficits. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The party spent far more than it could raise in taxes before 2007, creating a 'structural deficit', he said. The Sun He has missed his central objective of cutting the structural deficit within a single parliament. Times, Sunday Times On one side of the ledger, a structural deficit has built up again in state finances. Times, Sunday Times This means eliminating the structural deficit within the time frame he has set out and improving the performance of the economy overall. Times, Sunday Times We will once again have a structural deficit, despite the years we spent reducing it. Times,Sunday Times The pension scheme in each case was a final salary scheme, which appeared to be and had been for sometime in substantial deficit. Times, Sunday Times Discussion following the first question revealed that the congregation, in fact, had faced substantial deficits in the past. Christianity Today For example, in recent years, due to actuarial assumptions about future returns, substantial deficits have appeared in many defined-benefit pension schemes across industry and the public sector. Times, Sunday Times Central to his argument was the need to tackle the deficit. Times, Sunday Times While the cuts would be painful, they were 'guided by fairness and the overriding need to tackle the deficit'. Times, Sunday Times Most had reacted to his pledge to tackle the deficit and deliver a balanced budget with little more than a sceptical shrug. Times, Sunday Times If we fail to tackle the deficit we inherited, the consequences could be disastrous. The Sun Quietly drop the 12 billion target and tackle the deficit in other ways. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 逆差 Japanese: 欠損 |
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