Yesterday's Budget aims to resume a plan to cut the country's fiscaldeficit, after a one-year pause.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
He insists that the Government will meet its target of halving the fiscaldeficit in five years.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
A huge fiscaldeficit resulted in the early 1990s.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Definition of 'deficit'
deficit
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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.
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Definition of 'fiscal'
fiscal
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adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
Fiscal is used to describe something that relates to government money or public money, especially taxes.
fiscallyadverb [usually ADVERB adjective, oft ADVERB after verb]